Prefabricated Tilt-up Concrete Panels for Blast Resistant Design PREPRINT

Abstract

Engineering research efforts in the area of blast-resistant design is a priority of many government, military, and civilian organizations. Prefabricated tilt-up panels have become a very common method for conventional construction. This effort will present the development of an analytical model for creating static resistance functions which can be used in a single degree of freedom (SDOF) dynamic model. The results of the SDOF model can be used to predict and design the response of prefabricated tilt-up panels as blast walls. The paper will describe the performance of tilt-up panels for blast resistance using analytical models and full-scale field tests using live explosives. The results of the analytical dynamic model are verified using the field experiments, and the procedure is implemented into a user-friendly engineering design and analysis code, Air Force Wall Analysis Code (AFWAC).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA479750

Entities

People

  • Bryan T. Bewick
  • Hani A. Salim
  • John Hoemann
  • Robert J. Dinan

Organizations

  • Applied Research Associates (United States)

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter IED

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Concrete
  • Construction
  • Earthquake Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Explosives
  • Frequency
  • Governments
  • Materials
  • Mechanics
  • Military Research
  • Reinforced Concrete
  • Resonant Frequency
  • Structural Components

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Pavement Materials Engineering.
  • Structural Dynamics.