Protective Designs for Blast and Impact Threats
This paper describes methods for designing and implementing protective technologies for improving the blast and impact resistance of buildings. A protection plan for buildings may include designing blast-resistant columns, walls, and windows; other elements of security may also play a major part, including physical security measures such as: anti-ram barriers and fencing to demarcate a protective perimeter; features such as lighting, CCTVs, and locks to reduce clandestine activities; and operational procedures such as patrols, special response teams, neighborhood watches, and education to provide heightened surveillance and vigilance. In other words, protection for a building or facility does not begin at the entrance to the building, but is part of an overall fabric of multi-tiered, interwoven, and integrated protective procedures. Protective design is still in its infancy, especially the interoperability of its various parts. In this paper, we will focus on some of the protective technologies developed or evaluated by K&C pertaining to the engineering of perimeter devices for enforcing standoff, techniques for adding blast/impact resistance to buildings, and methods for implementing the engineering aspects of protection technology.
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