Review of blast analysis and design for industrial/residential buildings and ammunition storage facilities
Multidiscipline Modeling in Materials and Structures
ISSN: 1573-6105
Article publication date: 1 October 2020
Issue publication date: 4 February 2021
Abstract
Purpose
This paper reviews engineering work developed for blast analysis and design of industrial/residential and ammunition storage facilities. The review also covers work done for progressive collapse analysis and blast deflectors.
Design/methodology/approach
The first part of the paper describes characteristics of various types of explosions. Empirical and numerical models that were developed to estimate structural capacity are reviewed. The structural idealization, theoretical basis, and merits of various methods are also described. The influence of various parameters affecting the structural performance is discussed.
Findings
The material of the paper captures recent engineering developments that can be used by practitioners for blast analysis and design for industrial and residential buildings. Little emphasis was given in the published literature to develop simplified analytical models that can be used in practice to compute the dynamic response of buildings subject to accidental explosions. Furthermore, analytical expressions are required to compute the reduction in the stiffness due to impact loading.
Originality/value
Current building codes address conventional live, dead, wind and earthquake loads. Very few guidelines are available in practice for design of buildings subject to blast loading. The objective of this paper is to review and piece together recent engineering work developed for blast analysis and design of industrial/residential buildings and ammunition facilities. The paper provides useful resource material for the engineers in practice using recent techniques to design these structures. The review covers past three decades that can be used as a baseline for future developments.
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Citation
Bedair, O. (2021), "Review of blast analysis and design for industrial/residential buildings and ammunition storage facilities", Multidiscipline Modeling in Materials and Structures, Vol. 17 No. 2, pp. 437-450. https://doi.org/10.1108/MMMS-03-2020-0052
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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