Analysis and design of blastwalls to protect public structures from malevolent explosions

摘要

Recent events demonstrate that civil and government facilities and structures face an ever-increasing need to be designed for protection against malevolent explosions. Modification of existing public structures and especially design of new ones increasingly includes provisions for explosive protedction. ISEE members endorse and promote responsible application of explosives to benefit manking and deplore any other use. However, our knowledge of explosive vbehavior and our ability to predict the results of explosive events puts us in a unique position to given guidance to designers of civil and public sgructures.