MWB/LB-40 : Vulnerability: Weapons Effects on Structures & Vehicles

* Characterization Of Blast Effects: From High Explosives; Nuclear Weapons; Gas Explosions; Fuel/Air Explosives
* Response Of Structures To Blast Loading
* Design Considerations: To Reduce Blast, Vulnerability & Increase Survivability
* Steel & Concrete Designs: To Withstand Blast
* Use Of Design Codes: TM5-855, TM5-1300
* Penetration: Of Steel, Bunkers, Concrete & Soil
* Response Of Materials & Structures To Ballistic Loading
* Stress Wave Effects: On Materials, Structures & Vehicles
* Groundshock & Buried Structures: Effects From Explosive Weapons
* Examining The Effect On Structures: Arising From Accidental Explosions, Terrorist Attacks & Acts Of War
* Overview: Subject Area Of Structure Design And Response
* Methods Of Quantifying Loading From Explosives: In Air & Underground
* Methods Of Assessing Damage Or Response From Explosions In Air Or Underground: To Structures (Primarily); To Vehicles
* Survivability Techniques: Protective Designs; Methods Of Reducing Damage & Vulnerability

OBJECTIVE AND SCOPE

This course will cover the effect of explosives in various forms and media 
primarily on structures, and also on vehicles.

Reduction of the Vulnerability of structures and vehicles to explosives, by 
improved designs, is a primary objective of this course.

Knowledge of the blast effect of explosives and response of materials to 
severe shock loading is another objective of this course.

The explosive delivery systems, the weapons, and media are varied; Their 
effects will be quantified, in order to increase Survivability and reduce 
Vulnerability.



MATERIAL COVERED

The Vulnerability of structures (primarily) and vehicles (including combat 
vehicles), to various weapons damage will be covered.

Methods of reducing damage and increasing Survivability will be discussed; 
Structural design will be discussed.

The munitions looked at will be grenades, shaped charge and explosive 
projectiles, as well as bombs.

Methods of surviving attacks by explosives and ways to reduce the 
Vulnerability of structures and vehicles will be covered.

Behind Armor or Structural Damage, Vulnerability and Survivability as well 
as methods of designing better suppressive structures and protective structures 
will be discussed.

This course will cover the history, definition and sensitivities, of 
various explosives as well as their vulnerability and their effects on 
structures.

Shock and Blast effects of explosives and weapons will be covered; Response 
to loading and stress will be discussed.