Evaluation Process of the Burglary Resistance When Explosives Are Used to Create an Opening in the Barriers

• Main Authors: Zuzana Zvakova, Martin Boros, Lucia Figuli, Andrej Velas
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2021-09-01
• Series: Symmetry
• Subjects: burglary resistance; assets protection system; explosives; blast load
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/9/1740

Burglary resistance expresses the time required to overcome the barriers to cause the damage in order to unlawfully enter a place for the purposes of stealing property or committing a felony (i.e., disruption of important assets, e.g., critical infrastructure). Damage to the object protection system means damage to the symmetry of the system—the balance between protection measures and security threats. Barriers are considered to be the walls of buildings or secure storage units (safe, safe, etc.), i.e., passive barriers that separate asset (protected value) from the security threat. The role of barriers in the security system is also to slow down the attack and create a time reserve for the intervention of a security service. There is no uniform approach to express the burglary resistance of such barriers using explosives; however, burglary by explosion are present. Explosives in the article are a tool that can be used by the offenders. The article uses mainly Delphi method and Saaty method. These methods have made it possible to identify and expertly evaluate scenarios for the use of explosives to break a barrier. Logical methods and interviews were also used. The result of the article is the identification and evaluation of the possibilities of using explosives to overcome barriers and expressing the blast burglary resistance of barriers. The universal assessment approach allows the inclusion of explosives to the burglary resistance protection system assessment schemes.