“…Numerous blast mitigation approaches can be envisioned including increasing the strength or mass of protective structures, using impact energy absorbing schemes [5], adding polymer coatings/ films to retard fracture [6] and perhaps the use of active approaches that cancel in whole or in part, the momentum imparted to a structure by a shock wave [7]. In the blastloading situation, the deformation rates of structures correspond to velocities of motion in the 100 m/s or greater range [8].…”