Safe Rooms and Shelters - Structural Design Criteria
This online engineering PDH course discusses explosive threat parameters and measures needed to protect shelters from blast effects. Structural systems and building envelope elements for new and existing shelters are analyzed; shelters and FEMA model building types are discussed; protective design measures for the defined building types are provided, and design guidance and retrofit issues are presented. The purpose of this course is to offer comprehensive information on how to improve the resistance of shelters when exposed to blast events.
This 5 PDH online course is applicable to engineers, planners, architects, landscape designers, construction and operations personnel, security and law enforcement agents, as well as consultants and contractors who are in gaining a better understanding of the structural design criteria of safe rooms and shelters.
This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Understanding explosive threat and blast effect parameters
- Learning the various methods of hardened construction
- Design of new construction vs. retrofitting existing buildings
- Familiarizing with the different FEMA shelters and model building types
- Determining adequate design and construction of buildings exposed to various forces
In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review Chapter 2 "Structural Design Criteria" of the FEMA Publication tilted, "Safe Rooms and Shelters" (FEMA 453).
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