Building resilience: protective design and blast engineering for structures

Course

Date & Time

18 March 2027
10:00 - 17:30 GMT

Location

Online

Price

Member early booking: £330 + VAT
Member: £370 + VAT
Standard: £485 + VAT

Early booking discount

Available until one month prior

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This course demonstrates how significant blast resilience and resistance is possible with careful design, planning and detailing of a structure.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, you should be able to:

Describe structural responses to blast loading with reference to ‘equivalent single degree of freedom’ analysis
Use pressure impulse diagrams for approximate response assessment
Employ principles and guidelines for protective design against the effects of blast for concrete, steel, masonry and façade elements
Understand Hostile Vehicle Mitigation
Apply thoughts on sustainability into blast design

Intended for

Graduate engineer
Mid-career engineer
Senior engineer/Team leader/Manager

Bob was formerly a Senior Lecturer in protective structures at the Centre for Defence Engineering at Cranfield University. Bob is now an independent consultant for security engineering and protective structures.

Mariella is a structural engineer with expertise in blast effects on buildings, a field she's been specialising in since 2011. She currently leads the Protective Design Team at Arup Resilience Security and Risk in London and is a member of the Register of Security Engineers and Specialists, under the category of protection against the effects of blast.

Contact

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