Blast resistance can be achieved in a number of ways.

The small size of the pressure plate gives the mine some blast resistance.

Its blast resistance combined with the lack of metal in the mine make it extremely difficult to clear.

The base, up to 150 feet, will have what consultants call "a hard bottom," built to Department of Defense standards of blast resistance.

The curtain wall around the lobby uses heavily laminated, heat-strengthened glass that meets high standards for blast resistance.

Researchers produced cultivars adapted to poor soils, and with improved blast resistance and drought tolerance.

Though soldiers are increasingly exposed to explosive threats, there is currently no testing or performance requirements for blast resistance of approved eyewear.

Molecular mapping of the blast resistance genes, Pi44(t), derived from a durably resistant rice cultivar.

Bare steel support columns in upstairs parking areas have been encased in reinforced concrete to enhance their fire and blast resistance.

The building of the courthouse was completed in 2002 and was the first federal building built to comply with the post-Oklahoma City blast resistance requirements.

The security consultant on the Freedom Tower project is Weidlinger Associates, an engineering firm with decades of experience in blast resistance.

Samples of the glass wall have been tested successfully for bomb blast resistance at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

These include increased blast resistance, improved fire protection/life safety, and inclusion of chemical, biological and radiological (CBR) protection.

When it gets to specifics, almost everyone demurs, in part because specifying the level of blast resistance is almost an invitation to terrorists to concoct a higher charge.

In these configurations she was subjected to explosions to determine whether or not the experimental structures could satisfactorily combine essential lightness with equally essential strength and blast resistance.

The project was delayed for several months while a task force including the Police Department and a threat-assessment analyst developed criteria for blast resistance, which Mr. Blomberg said he could not disclose.

Straight downward pressure does not have the shearing component needed to trigger the mine, this gives the mine blast resistance, since blast overpressure bears down evenly on the top surface of the mine.

International Rice Research Institute, Los Banos and Du Pont R & D, Delaware (Molecular markers for mapping blast resistance, Rockefeller Foundation, USA.)

Among the 52 security improvements were physical barriers, closed-circuit television monitoring, site planning and access, hardening of building exteriors to increase blast resistance, glazing systems to reduce flying glass shards and fatalities, and structural engineering design to prevent progressive collapse.

Curtain walls help control breakage by deforming in response to a nearby blast, thereby partly relieving the intensity of the load that the glass itself must resist, said Robert Smilowitz, a principal in Weidlinger Associates, an engineering firm with decades of experience in blast resistance.