About the author  ⁄ Casey O’Laughlin, P.E.

Casey O’Laughlin is a Senior Research and Development Engineer in the Blast and Ballistics Research Group for Jacobs Technology at Tyndall AFB, FL. He can be reached at casey.olaughlin@jacobs.com.

Exterior Non-Load Bearing Cold-Formed Steel Walls

The DoD Unified Facilities Criteria (UFC) program developed documents to assist in determining the design basis threat and the desired level of protection of structures. Determining the level of protection to be achieved by a building against an explosive threat can be complicated and is based on analysis that considers variables such as the value of assets inside the building, likelihood of aggressor attack, aggressor tactics, and threat severity.

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