Abstract: A procedure is presented for analyzing underground protective structures subject to conventional weapons effects. A radiation damping term is added to a simple mass‐resistance system to include structure‐medium interaction ...

Abstract: This paper demonstrates the existence of cavitation in a solid medium (such as soil) that occurs when a stress wave propagating in the medium is diffracted by an embedded structure. It is shown that very complex nonlinearities ...

Abstract: Explosive attacks on buildings create a rapid release of energy in the form of a shock wave. Window glass is often the weakest part of a building, breaking at low pressures compared to other building components. Explosion-related ...