Blast Protection

Architectural Surety Workshop - 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.
www.sandia.gov/archsur/workshop.htm

Building Blast Protection Research - Research projects on terrorist blast protection conducted at California State University, Northridge.
www.ecs.csun.edu/~shustov/Blast_Control.htm

Design Techniques to Strengthen "Soft Buildings" against Acts of Terror and Car Bombs - Conference paper by Yaakov Yerushalmi, Uzi More, and Amit Reizes. Details of design methodologies based on practical experience in retrofit projects, with testing and investigations of actual bombings around the world. [PDF]
www.dtic.mil/ndia/technology/amit.pdf

Designing and Managing Vulnerability - CERF's sponsored conference agenda (October 23-24, 2001).
www.cerf.org/about/cab/meetings.htm

DoD Explosives Safety Board (DDESB) - 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.
www.ddesb.pentagon.mil/

Innovative Ideas (AISC) - Articles and links concerning blast protection for steel buildings.
www.aisc.org/Template.cfm?Section=Technical_Answers&Template=/TaggedPage/TaggedPageDisplay.cfm&TPLID=3&OriginalID=57&AddBullet=Yes&InterestCategoryID=680&Secondary=1

MIPT - Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT) is dedicated to preventing and reducing terrorism and mitigating its effects.
www.mipt.org/

Mitigating Terrorist Hazards - National Academy of Engineering presents The Bridge publication.
www.nae.edu/nae/bridgecom.nsf/weblinks/NAEW-4NHMEP?OpenDocument

Protecting Buildings from Bomb Damage(1995) - National Academy Press online presentation.
www.nap.edu/books/0309053757/html/index.html

Protective Technology Center - This is an indirect link to the Protective Technology Center, Pennsylvania State University.
www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/t/x/txk7/

Sails-Rigging Blast Protective Structural Shield - SEAINT Research Paper describing a new structural technique for mitigation of terrorist blast effects to buildings. [PDF]
www.seaint.org/seaocconvention/convention1999/Proceedings/BP_Shield.pdf

Testing Components of Catcher System for Blast Debris Protection - Research project performed by the California State University Northridge, Department of CE&AM.
www.ecs.csun.edu/~shustov/CME-C15.htm

USACE Engineer Research and Development Center - 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.
www.erdc.usace.army.mil/