Bio

Jeehoon Moo is a Master's student working with Dr. Sunil Chirayath on a project to investigate the impact and penetration on a reinforced concrete structure, which has been used widely in nuclear power plant facilities, by a TNT-shaped charged design using a numerical code. For the numerical code, ANSYS AUTODYN software is used, and this code will be able to use for analysis in engineering features and multi-physics events. Impact and dropping test with a low-velocity or a high-velocity, a large deformation by pressure, and explosion analysis can be examples. The project is done for nuclear security and nuclear nonproliferation purposes. A possible hole-size created on the reinforced concrete structure by TNT shaped charge design can be analyzed to determine whether a person can pass through the hole to damage the nuclear power facility further or steal special nuclear materials which can be used for making a nuclear weapon device. Before joining NSSPI, Moo received a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Norwich University in Vermont in 2016. He received his Master's of Science in nuclear engineering from Texas A&M in May of 2019.