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Soft Target Protection by Using Blast Resistant Trash Receptacles

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Many terrorist attacks in the last decade around the world have exposed the vulnerability of citizens in public places. The Migrant crisis in Europe additionally increased the intolerance among different ethnic groups leading to increased number of terrorist attacks at public places. Among others, explosive devices are often used at crowded public areas as in the case in Boston marathon 2013. Therefore blast protection of soft targets is very important issue in today’s world. Consequently the response evaluation of civilian objects, equipment and properties to this kind of loads becomes also important. For that purpose, this paper presents the results comparison between two different trash receptacles (non-blast resistant and improved design of blast resistant trash receptacle) taking into account the human injury criteria of the numerical HYBRID III 50% dummy by using the explicit code LS-DYNA.

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The research presented in this article has been partly funded by the Slovenian Research Agency as part of the “Modelling in technics and medicine” (code P2-0109 (C)) research programme.

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  1. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Chair of Modelling in Engineering Science and Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Jovan Trajkovski & Robert Kunc

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  1. Department of Security Management, University of Žilina, Žilina, Slovakia

    Ladislav Hofreiter

  2. Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute, Kharkov, Ukraine

    Viacheslav Berezutskyi

  3. Department of Security Management, University of Žilina, Žilina, Slovakia

    Lucia Figuli

  4. Department of Security Management, University of Žilina, Žilina, Slovakia

    Zuzana Zvaková

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Trajkovski, J., Kunc, R. (2020). Soft Target Protection by Using Blast Resistant Trash Receptacles. In: Hofreiter, L., Berezutskyi, V., Figuli, L., Zvaková, Z. (eds) Soft Target Protection. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1755-5_29

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