Explosion protection
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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.
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Two approaches to explosion protection
edit- 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].
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edit- ↑ Task Committee (1999). Structural Design for Physical Security. ASCE. ISBN 0784404577.
- ↑ Draft final reports on World Trade Center