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BREEZE HEXDAM can be used as a damage/injury assessment tool to
determine the amount of blast damage/injury done to individual
structures/persons in a certain geographical area due to the detonation of
explosives at ground-level or at a specified height above the ground. This type
of information would be helpful in determining the potential for destruction/
injury at an industrial facility where significant amounts of explosives are
manufactured, handled, and/or stored. Such information should also be useful in
evaluating the risk represented by acts of terrorism or sabotage to any
commercial building or industrial complex.
Other information may be useful in determining whether structures subject to
explosion (magazines, storage tanks, and fuel stockpiles, etc.) received enough
damage to explode, and if so, how much additional damage/injury was done to
other structures/ persons near the explosion. Because of the shielding algorithm
in BREEZE HEXDAM, the effects of the presence of a shielding wall or a blast
deflector can be taken into account. |
