Risk Assessment and Mitigation of Blast Damage to Structural Systems

为可能存在的数百或数千座现有建筑提供防爆保护措施的成本是巨大的，超出了政府和社会的资源。这里提出的决策框架提供了一种手段，将资金分配给那些被证明在发生炸弹爆炸时有高损坏风险的建筑物。这将使现有风险能够以合理和一致的方式进行量化和比较，从而确保在有限资源的支出下最大限度地减少风险。公共安全将由建筑物保护措施的范围和有效性来管理。生命将得到拯救，受伤的可能性和程度将降低，社会和经济破坏将降至最低。

The cost of providing blast-resistant protective measures to potentially hundreds or thousands of existing buildings is immense and beyond the resources of government and society. The decision-making framework proposed herein provides a means to allocate funds to those buildings shown to have high risk of damage in the event of bomb blast. This will enable existing risks to be quantified and compared in a rational and consistent manner, thus ensuring that risk mitigation is maximised given expenditure of limited resources. Public safety will be governed by the extent and effectiveness of building protective measures. Lives will be saved, likelihood and extent of injury reduced and social and economic disruption minimised.