Preliminary communication

Blast loading on structures

Hrvoje Draganić orcid.org/0000-0001-5060-7781 ; J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Crkvena 21, 31000 Osijek, Croatia
Vladimir Sigmund ; J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Crkvena 21, 31000 Osijek, Croatia

Abstract

The paper describes the process of determining the blast load on structures and provides a numerical example of a fictive structure exposed to this load. The aim was to become familiar with the issue of blast load because of ever growing terrorist threat and the lack of guidelines from national and European regulations on the verification of structures exposed to explosions. The blast load was analytically determined as a pressure-time history and numerical model of the structure was created in SAP2000. The results confirm the initial assumption that it is possible with conventional software to simulate an explosion effects and give a preliminary assessment of the structure.

Keywords

blast load; conventional software; pressure-time history; terrorist activities; the explosion

Hrčak ID:

86741

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/86741

Publication date:

19.9.2012.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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