This guide explains the approach to the design of buildings to optimise their resistance and to provide simple techniques for maximising the potential of a building to give protection against explosive effects. It incorporates the following key features: design objectives concerning the protection of people and equipment, and the minimising of damage to buildings; basic guidelines for enhancing the resilience of buildings to blast loading; methods for the design of buildings and using different construction materials.

From United Kingdom to U.S.A. About this Item: ICE Publishing, United Kingdom, 2009. Condition: New. Language: English. Brand New Book. The second edition has been fully revised and augmented to reflect significant developments in the field of blast engineering since the early 1990s.

Explosion effects on buildings. Nowadays there are many software tools available which, in case of a gas release, allow to calculate the dispersion of the gases (and hence predict the size and shape of the cloud) and to calculate the overpressures as a function of distance if this gas cloud should explode.

Combining coverage of the most up-to-date design standards, codes and materials with a detailed appreciation of the needs and demands of the designer, this book provides the engineer with a single and comprehensive source of reference for all the main elements of blast engineering design in modern practice. Industry-accepted methods for the design of glazing to resist blast loading are published for the first time, as well as a new chapter on hostile vehicle mitigation techniques. Guidance on structural steelwork and reinforced concrete design is extended and enhanced, supplemented with material on design in new materials such as steel-concrete-steel composites, this latter addition being published for the first time. From United Kingdom to U.S.A. About this Item: ICE Publishing, United Kingdom, 2009. Condition: New.

Language: English. Brand New Book. The second edition has been fully revised and augmented to reflect significant developments in the field of blast engineering since the early 1990s. Combining coverage of the most up-to-date design standards, codes and materials with a detailed appreciation of the needs and demands of the designer, this book provides the engineer with a single and comprehensive source of reference for all the main elements of blast engineering design in modern practice. Industry-accepted methods for the design of glazing to resist blast loading are published for the first time, as well as a new chapter on hostile vehicle mitigation techniques. Guidance on structural steelwork and reinforced concrete design is extended and enhanced, supplemented with material on design in new materials such as steel-concrete-steel composites, this latter addition being published for the first time.