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Terrorist Blast Protection Directory (29)

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• Anti-Terrorist Blast Suppression - The site presents Millibar Anti-Terrorist Blast Suppression techniques.
• 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.
• Blast Mitigation of Structures - List of some related sites prepared by Purdue University.
• Blast Protection - Cranfield University, UK briefs on its research on loads produced on structures by the detonation of high explosive charges.
• Blast-Resistant Structures - List of some blast resistant buildings by Weidlinger Associates.
• Bomb Protection of "Soft Buildings" - Strengthening of "Soft Buildings" against car bombing in Israel.
• Building Blast Protection Research - Research projects on terrorist blast protection conducted at California State University, Northridge.
• CE World's Critical Infrastructure Presentations - The latest thinking and practices to thwart and recover from emerging risks, threats and accidents, including terrost attacks, to our built and natural environment.
• The Department of Homeland Security - The site presents policies, news and latest developments in coordinating national strategy to strengthen protections against terrorist threats or attacks in the United States.
• Designing and Managing Vulnerability - CERF's sponsored conference agenda (October 23-24, 2001).
• DoD Explosives Safety Board (DDESB) - The DDESB mission is to provide objective advice to the Secretary of Defense on matters concerning explosives safety and to prevent hazardous conditions to life and property on and off Department of Defense installations.
• Earthquake Protector (EP) plus Prestressing-Induced Frame System (PIFS) - Being incorporated into a building structure, EP reduces an earthquake impact while PIFS increases survivability of a structure under extreme loads like a terrorist blast or hurricane.
• FEMA GEMS sites - Links to the research projects related to earthquake, wind and terrorist blast protection engineering.
• Field Testing of Airblast Barriers - Information on tests to verify the effectiveness of new design concepts for airblast barriers.
• Infrastructure Security for the Built Environment (ISBE) - The 1st Annual Congress, November 5-7, 2002, Washington, DC.
• Laminate Security Window - ACE/Security Laminates provides demonstration of a shatter resistant glass.
• MIPT - Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT) is dedicated to preventing and reducing terrorism and mitigating its effects.
• Mitigating Terrorist Hazards - National Academy of Engineering presents The Bridge publication.
• Paxcon - Anti-terrorism bomb blast protective coatings by Line-X Corp.
• Protecting Buildings from Bomb Damage(1995) - National Academy Press online presentation.
• Protective Technology Center - This is an indirect link to the Protective Technology Center, Pennsylvania State University.
• Sails-Rigging Blast Protective Structural Shield - SEAINT Research Paper describing a new structural technique for mitigation of terrorist blast effects to buildings.
• Testing Components of Catcher System for Blast Debris Protection - Research project performed by the California State University Northridge, Department of CE&AM.
• U.S. Department of State - Counterterrorism - U.S. State Department site: Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism.
• 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.
• The World Trade Center and Pentagon Tragedy - Prof. Louis Geschwindner's web portal.
• World Trade Center Building Performance Study - Data Collections, Preliminary Observations, and Recommendations.
• World Trade Center, Pentagon News Archive - Headline stories by ENR.

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