Author: U.S. Atomic Energy CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atomic bomb
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Nuclear Explosion Effects on Structures and Protective Construction
Author: U.S. Atomic Energy CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atomic bomb
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
ISC Security Design Criteria for New Federal Office Buildings and Major Modernization Projects
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309088801
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
In November 1999, GSA and the U.S. Department of State convened a symposium to discuss the apparently conflicting objectives of security from terrorist attack and the design of public buildings in an open society. The symposium sponsors rejected the notion of rigid, prescriptive design approaches. The symposium concluded with a challenge to the design and security professions to craft aesthetically appealing architectural solutions that achieve balanced, performance-based approaches to both openness and security. In response to a request from the Office of the Chief Architect of the Public Buildings Service, the National Research Council (NRC) assembled a panel of independent experts, the Committee to Review the Security Design Criteria of the Interagency Security Committee. This committee was tasked to evaluate the ISC Security Design Criteria to determine whether particular provisions might be too prescriptive to allow a design professional "reasonable flexibility" in achieving desired security and physical protection objectives.
Blast Effects on Buildings
Author: David CormiePublisher: Thomas Telford Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Blast effect
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Reflects developments in the field of blast engineering since the early 1990s. Combining coverage of the design standards, codes and materials with an appreciation of the needs and demands of the designer, this book provides the engineer with a comprehensive source of reference for the main elements of blast engineering design in modern practice.
Structures to Resist the Effects of Accidental Explosions
Author: Effects of Nuclear Earth-Penetrator and Other Weapons
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309096731
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Underground facilities are used extensively by many nations to conceal and protect strategic military functions and weapons' stockpiles. Because of their depth and hardened status, however, many of these strategic hard and deeply buried targets could only be put at risk by conventional or nuclear earth penetrating weapons (EPW). Recently, an engineering feasibility study, the robust nuclear earth penetrator program, was started by DOE and DOD to determine if a more effective EPW could be designed using major components of existing nuclear weapons. This activity has created some controversy about, among other things, the level of collateral damage that would ensue if such a weapon were used. To help clarify this issue, the Congress, in P.L. 107-314, directed the Secretary of Defense to request from the NRC a study of the anticipated health and environmental effects of nuclear earth-penetrators and other weapons and the effect of both conventional and nuclear weapons against the storage of biological and chemical weapons. This report provides the results of those analyses. Based on detailed numerical calculations, the report presents a series of findings comparing the effectiveness and expected collateral damage of nuclear EPW and surface nuclear weapons under a variety of conditions.
The Effects of Nuclear Weapons
Author: United States. Defense Atomic Support AgencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atomic bomb
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Damage from Atomic Explosion and Design of Protective Structures
Author: United States. Department of DefensePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atomic bomb
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Nuclear Science Abstracts
Author: Report
Author: United States. Congress SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2594
Book Description
Annual Report of the Activities of the Joint Committee on Defense Production
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Defense ProductionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial priorities
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description