This paper aims at providing a methodology to perform consequences
analysis to buildings produced by the pressure wave from the detonation
of explosive substances whose TNT equivalence is known. Damages suffered
by buildings usually affect the people inside them. Thus, it is important
to take them into account when performing consequence analysis. This
is done in this paper by firstly presenting and discussing the main
PROBIT equations to evaluate the following damages to buildings:
minor damage (broken windows, displacement of doors and window frames,
tile displacement, etc.), major structural damage (cracks in walls,
collapse of some walls) and collapse (building partially or totally
demolished). Secondly, a new methodology is developed to relate characteristic
overpressure-impulse-distance curves for the detonation of explosive
substances, obtained in a previous paper Diaz Alonso, F., Gonzalez
Ferradas, E., Sanchez Perez, J. F., Mi�ana Aznar, A., Ruiz Gimeno,
J., & Martinez Alonso, J. (2006). Characteristic overpressure-impulse-distance
curves for the detonation of explosives, pyrotechnics or unstable
substances. Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries,
19, 724-728 with the selected PROBIT equations. This methodology
allows the determination of damage to buildings as a function of
distance to the accident's origin in one step, using TNT equivalent
mass as input parameter and completing the consequence analysis,
since the application to determine damage to humans outdoors was
shown in a previous paper Diaz Alonso, F., Gonzalez Ferradas, E.,
Sanchez Perez, J. F., Mi�ana Aznar, A., Ruiz Gimeno, J., & Martinez
Alonso, J. (2007). Consequence analysis by means of characteristic
curves to determine the damage to humans from the detonation of explosive
substances as a function of TNT equivalence. Journal of Loss Prevention
in the Process Industries, 20, 187-193.