Displacement ductility and rotational ductility are used, to verify the performance of blast doors subjected to explosive loads. The values of these performance items are calculated by measuring the maximum elastic displacement in the laboratory, and the maximum displacement during the explosion test. To attain the maximum elastic displacement, the finite element analysis and the load distribution method are applied. In applying the load distribution method, the behavior of a blast door along a width direction is converted to a cantilever beam and along a height direction to a simply supported beam. The results by the load distribution method are verified by a finite element analysis and compared with those by a plate theory.