Casualty analysis of major terrorist attacks in recent decades shows an enormous increase
in fatalities and economic losses. Due to frequent terrorist attacks and failure of engineering …

Most traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) during military deployment or training are clinically “mild”
and frequently caused by non-impact blast exposures. Experimental models were …

The blast-induced impulsive loads due to unabated accidental and man-made explosions
on structures are receiving attention from structural designers. Recent devastating Beirut …

The strategy for dealing with the blast-induced threats against a structure requires attention
from planning and design stages, as introducing or altering various blast response …

A model is proposed to evaluate the effects of explosions on laminated glass plates, made of
glass plies bonded by thin polymeric interlayers, in the pre-glass-breakage phase. The …

The mechanical response and energy absorption characteristics of the energy-absorbing
structure under blast loading are widely concerned in engineering protection, while the …

With the rapid advancement of the new generation of ammunition, the evaluation of the
explosion power has received worldwide attention. To assess the power of blast waves …

A growing interest for the design of structures to sustain blast-induced loads has been
observed in recent years as a result of the worldwide rise of terrorist bombing attacks. The …

The dynamic response and design optimization of clamped sandwich panels comprising two
aluminum alloy face-sheets and a layered-gradient closed-cell aluminum foam core …

Recently, the blast load has become more recognized in the structural engineering field
because the blast load can result in not only disproportionate structural failure but also …