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Upper Bound Blast Wave Overpressure Predictions
Outside House
Inside Home
Furthest from
Rupture
Blast Wave
Overpressure
No blast wave
transmission into
home
3.5 kPa
Outside House
Nearest to Rupture
5.7 kPa
Overpressure Damage Criteria from the Scientific Literature
Overpressure
Typical window breakage
1 - 1.5 kPa
Windows usually shattered
3.5 - 7 kPa
Personnel knocked down
7 - 10 kPa
Partial collapse of walls and roof of house, uninhabitable
7 - 14 kPa
Nearly complete destruction of houses
35 - 50 kPa