Sarah Stewart

Universities and Institutes in US:

• Institute for Shock Physics, Washington State University
• Lindhurst Laboratory of Experimental Geophysics, California Institute of Technology
• Mechanical Properties Research Laboratory (MPRL), Georgia Institute of Technology
• Plate Impact Facility, Clifton's Lab, Brown University
• The Institute for Advanced Technology (IAT), University of Texas at Austin
• Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics & Engineering Research, Baylor University
• Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
• D.K. Wright Jr. Laboratory, Case Western Reserve University
• Dynamic Inelasticity Laboratory, Northwestern University
• Poulter Applied Mechanics, Stanford Research Institute
• Space Research Institute, Auburn University
• Ballistics and Explosive Engineering Section, Southwest Research Institute
• Shock Compression Laboratory, Harvard University

Universities and Institutes outside US:

• Institute of Shock Physics, Imperial College, London
• Planetary and Space Science Centre, U. New Brunswick (Lab description)
• Dynamic Fracture Laboratory, Israel Institute of Technology
• Kondo and Nakamura group, Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Sugita group, U. Tokyo
• The Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge (Fracture & Shock Physics Group)
• Impact Research Centre, University of Liverpool
• Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science (CAPS) has a light gas gun, University of Kent at Canterbury, U.K.
• Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute has a vertical (adjustable) gas gun, The Open University
• Centro Interdipartimentale Studi ed Attività Spaziali "G.Colombo" (CISAS) has a high-frequency two-stage light gas gun, U. Padova, Italy
• Gas Dynamics and Combustion Lab, CNR-TEMPE, Italy
• Impact Physics at the Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Germany
• Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics (Southwest Institute of Fluid Physics), Mianyang, China
• Lab. of High Pressure Physics, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
• Gas Dynamics lab, Institute for Chemical Physics Research, Chernogolovka, Russia
• The Russian Federal Nuclear Center, All-Russia Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia

NASA:

• NASA Ames: Ballistics Range Complex including the Ames Vertical Gun Range
• NASA Glenn: Ballistic Impact Facility
• NASA Johnson Space Center: Experimental Impact Laboratory
• NASA White Sands Test Facility: Hypervelocity Impact Test Facility (HITF), ARES HITF Page

National Laboratories:

• Los Alamos National Laboratory: Detonation Science & Technology Facility
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory:
  Gas guns (now in HEAF)
  SHARP (Super High Altitude Research Project)
  Joint Actinide Shock Physics Experimental Facility (JASPER)
• Sandia National Laboratories: Shock Thermodynamic Applied Research Facility (STAR)

Private Companies:

• Boeing Shock Physics Laboratory
• Dynasen
• Battelle's High Energy Research Laboratory Area (HERLA)

Gas Gun Vendors:

• Physics Applications Inc. (PAI), US
• Thiot Ingenierie, France

Other types of impact and shockwave facilities:

• National Ignition Facility at LLNL
• Jupiter Laser Facility at LLNL
• National Laser User Facility at U. Rochester
• Z Pulsed Power Facility, Sandia National Laboratories
• Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University
• The Heidelberg Dust Accelerator Facility, Germany (particle accelerator)
• Dust Accelerator, Colorado Center for Lunar Dust and Atmospheric Studies, U. Colorado at Boulder