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Abstract
Accidental and intentional explosions are incidents often destroying buildings and leaving casualties. As a result of these blasts all over the world, demand of safe constructions with less vulnerability to explosions is rising. A large number of office buildings are built each year in many countries, housing large numbers of staff and clients, and due to specific nature and function, activities and services, these buildings are usually centrally located. Their architectural form being vital, therefore the article attempts, firstly, to present indices depicting the building form from the viewpoint of vulnerability to explosion. Secondly, the article presents such indexes as: capability to reduce blast effects, economic factors, simplicity of implementation, relationship among spaces in the crisis condition, and creating the least unusable space. The model of rapid assessment of vulnerability of office buildings forms to blast, SMART (simple multi attribute ranking technique) procedure is used and, applying the SWARA method, the weight of each major index and sub-index is arrived at. The model presented in the paper shows the assessment systems using figures between zero and a hundred, and four levels of vulnerability: weak, medium, good and excellent. The closer the figure to a hundred, the lower the vulnerability of the office building forms to blast. Swiss Re Tower case study was presented in the article rating of vulnerability of this building against explosion. It was found to be equal to 62.11%, and its standing was at medium level.
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Jalal Nakhaei
Jalal NAKHAEI. He is currently PhD in Art and Architecture Engineering in Science and Research Branch Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. His research areas are architectural engineering, secure space and structures, explosion protection.
Mahdi Bitarafan
Mahdi BITARAFAN. PhD Student of Earthquake Engineering in Engineering Research Institution of Natural Disaster Shakhes Pajouh, Isfahan, Iran. Research interests: earthquake engineering, civil engineering, retrofitting and strengthening on steel and concrete structures, explosion protection, multiple criteria decision making.
Shahin Lale Arefi
Shahin LALE AREFI. PhD Candidate of Structural Engineering at the University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran. Research interests: civil engineering, earthquake engineering, experimental, composite materials, retrofitting and strengthening on steel and concrete structures, modeling and analytical research on steel and composite structural, multiple criteria decision making, damage detection, optimal sensor placement.
Oleg Kapliński
Oleg KAPLIŃSKI. He is Professor of CE at Faculty of Architecture (IAP), Poznan University of Technology, Poznań, Poland. He lectures in economics and organization of the investment process, as well as theory and principles of work places design. The author of 240 publications. Doctor Honoris Causa of VGTU (1996). Member of the CE Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His current research focuses on: integral management, integral design, risk management, theory of decision making and research methods in CE and architecture.