Protecting People and Buildings from Terrorism: Technology Transfer for Blast-Effects Mitigation

Committee for Oversight and Assessment of Blast-effects and Related Research,Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,National Research Council

Protecting People and Buildings from Terrorism: Technology Transfer for Blast-Effects Mitigation
Format
Paperback
Publisher
National Academies Press
Country
United States
Published
31 January 2002
Pages
98
ISBN
9780309082860

Protecting People and Buildings from Terrorism: Technology Transfer for Blast-Effects Mitigation

Committee for Oversight and Assessment of Blast-effects and Related Research,Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,National Research Council

Concerned with the vulnerability of U.S. civilian and military personnel to terrorist bombing attacks, the U.S. Congress directed the Department of Defense to undertake a comprehensive research and testing program aimed at protecting people in buildings from such attacks. The Blast Mitigation for Structures Program (BMSP) was initiated in 1997 and has produced a large volume of experimental and analytical data that will permit the design of new, more robust buildings as well as the development of methods to retrofit a large number of vulnerable existing structures. This report reviews the BMSP program and investigates a process that would use existing institutional infrastructures (i.e., building code and standards-writing organizations, professional and technical organizations, universities, and research centers) to disseminate knowledge.

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