Vehicle Security Barriers (VSBs) are frequently utilised in urban settings to defend against vehicular terrorist attacks. They may come in various forms, including bollards, street furniture and landscape features. The effectiveness of such barriers is usually assessed through a singular vehicle...

This report presents a revision and re-formulation of the so-called "old" model for the simulation of rigid bodies (SOLI model) in the EUROPLEXUS code. This model is based on the substitution ("decomposition") of the discretized rigid body by a mechanically equivalent set of four points in 3D...

The purpose of the current handbook is to provide guidance to security and law enforcement oficials, building/site owners, venue organisers, state organisations, engineers and other stakeholders in charge of securing infrastructure and public spaces against the growing international threat posed...

This technical report discusses the potential use of Large Language Models for location detection with a focus on the JRC Terrorism and Extremism Database. The report highlights the current inaccuracies in the database's location detection algorithm, which uses adhoc created embeddings,...

The purpose of the current handbook is to provide guidance to security and law enforcement oficials, building/site owners, venue organisers, state organisations, engineers and other stakeholders in charge of securing infrastructure and public spaces against the growing international threat posed...

This report presents some preliminary calculations for the simulation of rat, monkey and human head behaviour (in particular of the brain) under imposed deceleration conditions by the EUROPLEXUS code. EUROPLEXUS (also abbreviated as EPX) is a computer code jointly developed by the French...

The ERNCIP network has been established to improve the protection of critical infrastructures in the EU. The European Reference Network for Critical Infrastructure Protection (ERNCIP) therefore works in close cooperation with all types of CIP stakeholders, focusing particularly on the technical...

This report presents the implementation in the EUROPLEXUS code of the possibility of storing a solution for later re-mapping it as initial conditions for a subsequent simulation. EUROPLEXUS (also abbreviated as EPX) is a computer code jointly developed by the French Commissariat à l'Energie...

The most popular contact algorithms available in finite element computer codes are probably the socalled slide line (in 2D) and slide surface (in 3D) algorithms proposed by Hallquist and Benson. They are based on the notion of penetration of slave nodes into master segments (in 2D) or into...

This report presents the implementation of the LINK DECO BLOQ directive under domain decomposition (MPI version) in the EUROPLEXUS code. EUROPLEXUS (also abbreviated as EPX) is a computer code jointly developed by the French Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA DMT Saclay) and by EC-JRC. The...