Cost-effective decision making for blast mitigation

Proceedings of the Structures Congress and Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 2149-2160

  Princehorn, Molly ^a,b   Laefer, Debra ^a,c  

^a ASCE ^*  (United States)

^b Harris and Sloan Consulting Group Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Blast Mitigation; Cost Analysis; Explosives; Structural Retrofitting; Terrorism

Indexed keywords

BLAST MITIGATION; COST ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL RETROFITTING; TERRORISM;

BUILDINGS; DECISION MAKING; EXPLOSIVES; LOADS (FORCES); MANAGERS; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

BLASTING;

EID: 27644461251     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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