Hard body refers to a small object thrown at a door. Anything a patient can pick up and toss. The soft body impact is them throwing themselves or another person against the door/wall.
I'm dealing with a wall in a psych ward that needs to be designed for ASTM E695 Hard body impact and soft body impact of 175 ft-lbs and 480 ft-lbs respectively. If you look up the E695 test, they are basically dropping a weighted bag on a pendulum and having it hit the wall. My question is this...
