The foam is light weight, blast resistant, as well as temperature and age stable. As such, Cymat's product could be utilized to cost-effectively reduce mortality and morbidity as well as protect buildings in both military and civilian applications.
The blast mitigation market is expanding rapidly thereby providing a significant growth opportunity for Cymat.
The following movieclip was captured at a bomb testing site in Australia. The building was protected by a TABREshield system incorporating Cymat's SAF product. Test results confirmed that this system was able to resist a 5 tonne bomb at 40 metres compared to the common understanding that reinforced concrete fails at 100m. Tests also showed that overpressure reduced by 90% and reflected pressure by 30%.
Source: UK MOD/ Australian DSTO tests 2005
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Aigis Blast Protection (aigis.co.uk) has together with Cymat's SAF product developed a REVOLUTIONARY new blast protection system called Tabreshield which is already in use protecting airports and office blocks across the world. Tabreshield is a lightweight cladding made from hollow glass balls held together with resin.
It weighs approximately 50kg/m 2 and behaves like a stone sponge, absorbing the blast and then, if necessary, disintegrating to disperse the impact.
It can be retrofited to buildings, tunnels or structures and can be used to clad specific areas used to store suspected letter bombs or suspicious luggage.
The Tabreshield system can be used to prevent catastrophes such as the Oklahoma City bombing (pictured below) as the reinforced concrete pillars that are directly hit would remain intact. This protection could prevent the large scale structural damage that occurred as it could eliminate the failure of principal support columns in large buildings.
For more information on any of our products and blast mitigation studies please contact us.