Explosion protection

Structural control with blast-protective curtain wall system.

Explosion protection is meant to protect buildings and other civil engineering objects against internal and external explosions. It was widely believed^[1] until recently that a building subject to an explosive attack had a chance to remain standing only if it possessed some extraordinary resistive capacity. This belief rested on the assumption that the blast load was fully beyond our control.

Two approaches to explosion protection

1. Prevention. Prevention makes an explosion impossible to occur.

2. Structural control. Structural control will limit structural damage from explosion pressure and flying debris.^[2]

Explosion Protection Media

Discharge hood with explosion relief panels and fracture clip releases

Other websites

Curtain Wall Testing
Designing Buildings to Resist Explosive Threats Archived 2010-06-13 at the Wayback Machine
The world's top Blast Protection websites

References

↑ Task Committee (1999). Structural Design for Physical Security. ASCE. ISBN 978-0-7844-0457-7.
↑ "Draft final reports on World Trade Center". Archived from the original on 2006-12-24. Retrieved 2020-09-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

[PhysicalSecurity-1] Task Committee (1999). Structural Design for Physical Security. ASCE. ISBN 978-0-7844-0457-7.

[2] "Draft final reports on World Trade Center". Archived from the original on 2006-12-24. Retrieved 2020-09-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

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