Blast shelters are a vital form of protection from nuclear attacks and are employed in civil defense. There are above-ground, below-ground, dedicated, dual-purpose, and potential blast shelters. …

The blast door evaluated would provide ade-quate protection from much higher overpressures if used in a pass-through tun-nel system, which would allow the blast wave to flow through the …

Posttest analyses indicate that the reinforced concrete blast door will successfully withstand the airblast effects of a 1-MT nuclear detonation at the 50-psi overpressure range.

A new design of quickly closable, expedient blast door was tested at 29, 17 and 13 psi surface overpressure ranges. Only the blast door at 17 psi was damaged, and even it remained intact …

Heavy duty blast resistant, splinter protected and gas tight doors for shelters and protected spaces, which comply with various international civil defence and protection standards and …

Temet’s Blast Doors: Designed to be embedded into the concrete structure and used in hardened shelters and blast protected special purpose structures to stop the blast wave. Allowing the …

To improve your chances of surviving a nuclear attack, your primary need would be an adequate shelter equipped for many days of occupancy. A shelter that affords good protection against …

Blast doors designed to be installed on the entrance or evacuation openings of the shelter to protect the inner space from pressure wave created by blast outside and keep the airtightness …

Jan 1, 2021 · Blast doors are specially designed doors for military facilities and important civil buildings in potentially explosive environment. In the present investigation, Finite Element (FE) …

The shelter was designed to withstand the blast from a 1 megaton nuclear explosion 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) away. The blast doors at the tunnel portals are 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in) thick and weigh …