A study of concrete slabs with steel wire mesh reinforcement under close-in explosive loads

Structural responses and damages under blast loading environments are critical to structural and personnel safety. The blast scenarios involving close-in detonations are attracting increasingly more attentions over the last few decades due to the rising of terrorism. Under close-in detonations, stru...

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Main Authors: Li, J., Wu, C., Hao, Hong, Su, Y., Li, Z.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/50058
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author Li, J.
Wu, C.
Hao, Hong
Su, Y.
Li, Z.
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Wu, C.
Hao, Hong
Su, Y.
Li, Z.
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description Structural responses and damages under blast loading environments are critical to structural and personnel safety. The blast scenarios involving close-in detonations are attracting increasingly more attentions over the last few decades due to the rising of terrorism. Under close-in detonations, structural elements tend to fail in a brittle mode including shear, concrete crater and spall. In such loading scenarios, the structural designated loading capacity which is usually based on flexural deformation assumption is not fully developed. To provide high-level structural protection, high performance concretes with varying fibre additions are now widely investigated and used in blast resistance designs. In the present study, field blast tests results on reinforced concrete slabs under close-in detonations are presented. Performances of slabs made of normal strength concrete and steel fibre reinforced concrete are compared and discussed. Besides conventional steel rebar reinforcement, new reinforcement scheme i.e. hybrid steel wire mesh-micro steel fibre reinforcement is investigated through the laboratory static tests and field blast tests. Furthermore, a numerical study based on Multi-Material ALE and Lagrangian algorithm is carried out to further investigate the field tests' phenomenon.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-500582017-11-22T01:34:04Z A study of concrete slabs with steel wire mesh reinforcement under close-in explosive loads Li, J. Wu, C. Hao, Hong Su, Y. Li, Z. Structural responses and damages under blast loading environments are critical to structural and personnel safety. The blast scenarios involving close-in detonations are attracting increasingly more attentions over the last few decades due to the rising of terrorism. Under close-in detonations, structural elements tend to fail in a brittle mode including shear, concrete crater and spall. In such loading scenarios, the structural designated loading capacity which is usually based on flexural deformation assumption is not fully developed. To provide high-level structural protection, high performance concretes with varying fibre additions are now widely investigated and used in blast resistance designs. In the present study, field blast tests results on reinforced concrete slabs under close-in detonations are presented. Performances of slabs made of normal strength concrete and steel fibre reinforced concrete are compared and discussed. Besides conventional steel rebar reinforcement, new reinforcement scheme i.e. hybrid steel wire mesh-micro steel fibre reinforcement is investigated through the laboratory static tests and field blast tests. Furthermore, a numerical study based on Multi-Material ALE and Lagrangian algorithm is carried out to further investigate the field tests' phenomenon. 2017 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/50058 10.1016/j.ijimpeng.2017.01.016 Elsevier restricted
spellingShingle Li, J.
Wu, C.
Hao, Hong
Su, Y.
Li, Z.
A study of concrete slabs with steel wire mesh reinforcement under close-in explosive loads
title A study of concrete slabs with steel wire mesh reinforcement under close-in explosive loads
title_full A study of concrete slabs with steel wire mesh reinforcement under close-in explosive loads
title_fullStr A study of concrete slabs with steel wire mesh reinforcement under close-in explosive loads
title_full_unstemmed A study of concrete slabs with steel wire mesh reinforcement under close-in explosive loads
title_short A study of concrete slabs with steel wire mesh reinforcement under close-in explosive loads
title_sort study of concrete slabs with steel wire mesh reinforcement under close-in explosive loads
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/50058