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Facts for Steel Buildings Number 2 - Blast and Progressive Collapse
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Facts for Steel Buildings Number 2 - Blast and Progressive Collapse
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Presents background and definitions for explosive loads and progressive collapse, general principles of blast loads and response prediction, recommendations for structures designed to resist blast and mitigate progressive collapse, recent guidelines and Federal and DoD requirements, some observations from historical events, and some information on ongoing research.
Publication Date: 2005
Author(s)
Kirk A. Marchand and Farid Alfawakhiri