Edited by David Comrie, Geoff Mays and Peter Smith, acknowledged experts in this specialist field, the publication provides guidance on designing buildings to optimise their resilience to blast loading.  It focuses on the design of commercial buildings and will be an invaluable guide in assisting engineers and architects to design structures to protect them from terrorist bomb attack and mitigate any effects of an attack if one were to take place.

This second edition covers all aspect of designing blast protected structures and includes sections on structural design, new developments in glazing, hostile vehicle mitigation and a review of how the different construction materials – steel, reinforced concrete and steel-concrete-steel composites – perform under blast loading.

Bi-Steel is discussed at length in the chapter on steel-concrete-steel composites where the advantages of this construction material are comprehensively reviewed. Bi-Steel is also featured in the chapter on vehicle-borne threats where the various forms of vehicle security barriers – walls, bollards. blockers and planters are reviewed. .

Blast effects on Buildings (ISBN: 9780727735218) is arguably the most authoritative book currently available on how buildings can be designed to optimise their resistance to blast. 

It is published by Thomas Telford Ltd  at £65 plus p&p.