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Damage state identification for reinforced concrete columns in uplift due to internal building detonations

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posted on 2018-09-03, 12:59 authored by Lakshitha M. Wijesundara, Simon Clubley
This paper details the development of a generalised damage identification procedure for reinforced concrete columns subjected to internal building detonations. With the successful application of advanced computational fluid dynamics and structural response modelling techniques, we have conducted a set of comprehensive parametric studies on reinforced concrete column failure when subjected to high-rate, coupled uplift and shear typically induced by internal explosive blast. The outputs of the parametric studies have been analysed using a multi-variable, non-linear curve fitting technique to develop the generalised damage identification procedure for columns, separately for two main internal blast conditions. The paper also presents a number of worked examples illustrating its application and significance in practice.

History

School

  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Published in

Engineering Structures

Volume

127

Pages

804 - 823

Citation

WIJESUNDARA, L.M. and CLUBLEY, S.K., 2016. Damage state identification for reinforced concrete columns in uplift due to internal building detonations. Engineering Structures, 127, pp.804-823.

Publisher

© Elsevier

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2016-07-27

Publication date

2016-09-22

Notes

This paper was published in the journal Engineering Structures and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2016.07.051.

ISSN

0141-0296

Language

  • en