Soft Target Protection by Using Blast Resistant Trash Receptacles

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.