Design of Blast-Resistant Buildings in Energy and Industrial Facilities

Revised guidelines and worked examples present strategies for designing energy and industrial facilities to resist blasts, explosions, and impulsive loads. Covering load calculations, dynamic analysis, new construction types, risk-based siting, and energy-absorbing mitigation, it aids engineers.

Sponsored by the Task Committee on Blast-Resistant Design of the Energy Division of ASCE.

Design of Blast-Resistant Buildings in Energy and Industrial Facilities, Third Edition, provides general guidelines and three worked design examples for the structural design of blast-resistant buildings. This new edition incorporates updates regarding new developments within structural blast engineering in energy and industrial facilities including risk-based facility siting, new building types, loading on elevated buildings, new screening level guidance, and mitigation using energy-absorbing systems.

 

Topics include

·       Determination of loads,

·       Types of construction,

·       Dynamic material strength and response criteria,

·       Dynamic analysis methods,

·       Design procedures,

·       Ancillary and architectural considerations,

·       Evaluation and upgrade of existing buildings,

·       Shear wall building design example,

·       Metal building design example, and

·       Masonry retrofit design example.

 

This book will be of interest to structural engineers and engineers in the petrochemical, power generation, pharmaceutical, and other chemical processing industries. This third edition will aid professionals working on the design of structures and buildings to resist the effects of blasts, explosions, and impactive/impulsive loads.

Contributor: Luca Magenes (Edited by), Matthew Edel (Contributions by), Timothy Bryn Sisson (Contributions by), Charles Auverny Bennetot (Contributions by), Darrell D. Barker (Contributions by), William L. Bounds (Contributions by), Matthew John Brightman (Contributions by), Haritha Cherkatu Vasala (Contributions by), Ozer Dereli (Contributions by), Jason Florek (Contributions by), Song F. Jan (Contributions by), David Kerins (Contributions by), Theodor Krauthammer (Contributions by), Philip Lange (Contributions by), Guzhao Li (Contributions by), Michael Joseph Lowak (Contributions by), Rudy Mulia (Contributions by), Taraka Ravi S. Mullapudi (Contributions by), Franz Mutis (Contributions by), Carlos Andres Ortega (Contributions by), Charles Oswald (Contributions by), Mehmet Cem Ozbey (Contributions by), Tom Tanas Panayotidi (Contributions by), Mike Rookstool (Contributions by), Ali Sari (Contributions by), Mohammad Sharafbayani (Contributions by), Seung Song (Contributions by), Paul Berwick Summers (Contributions by), James W. Wesevich (Contributions by), Yu Zhao (Contributions by)

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