Blast Protection Structural Engineering Technology

Blast Protection

The category incorporates web sites providing information on Terrorist Blast Protection of building stuctures and lifelines by enhancing their structural security.

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• - List of some blast resistant buildings by Weidlinger Associates.
  
• - Summarizes the methods available to define an external terrorist bomb threat and estimate structural design loads and element responses using simple dynamic system models and principles.
  
• - Links to the research projects related to earthquake, wind and terrorist blast protection engineering.
  
• - National Academy Press online presentation.
  
• - This Sandia National Laboratories web site presents the workshop that considered normal, abnormal (natural disasters), and malevolent (terrorist attack) environmental conditions as the basis for deliberations.
  
• - Articles and links concerning blast protection for steel buildings.
  
• - Strengthening of "Soft Buildings" against car bombing in Israel.
  
• - CERF's sponsored conference agenda (October 23-24, 2001).
  
• - Unit established to advise the US Secretary of Defense on matters concerning explosives safety and to prevent hazardous conditions to life and property. Includes some technical documents.
  
• - SEAINT Research Paper describing a new structural technique for mitigation of terrorist blast effects to buildings.
  
• - U.S. State Department site: Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism.
  
• - Research projects on terrorist blast protection conducted at California State University, Northridge.
  
• - National Academy of Engineering presents The Bridge publication.
  
• - ACE/Security Laminates provides demonstration of a shatter resistant glass.
  
• - This is an indirect link to the Protective Technology Center, Pennsylvania State University.
  
• - The Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers distributed research and development command which is including, but not limited to, the terrorist blast mitigation.
  
• - List of some related sites prepared by Purdue University.
  
• - Research project performed by the California State University Northridge, Department of CE&AM.
  
• - Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT) is dedicated to preventing and reducing terrorism and mitigating its effects.
  
  

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