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http://dx.doi.org/10.12989/scs.2018.27.6.717

Numerical study of steel sandwich plates with RPF and VR cores materials under free air blast loads  

Rashad, Mohamed (Department of Civil Engineering, University of British Columbia)
Yang, T.Y. (International Joint Research Laboratory of Earthquake Engineering, Tongji University)
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Steel and Composite Structures / v.27, no.6, 2018 , pp. 717-725 More about this Journal
Abstract
One of the most important design criteria in military tunnels and armoured doors is to resist the blast loads with minimum structural weight. This can be achieved by using steel sandwich panels. In this paper, the nonlinear behaviour of steel sandwich panels, with different core materials: (1) Hollow (no core material); (2) Rigid Polyurethane Foam (RPF); and (3) Vulcanized Rubber (VR) under free air blast loads, was investigated using detailed 3D nonlinear finite element models in Ansys Autodyn. The accuracy of the finite element model proposed was verified using available experimental test data of a similar steel sandwich panel tested. The results show the developed finite element model can be reliably used to simulate the nonlinear behaviour of the steel sandwich panels under free air blast loads. The verified finite element model was used to examine the different parameters of the steel sandwich panel with different core materials. The result shows that the sandwich panel with RPF core material is more efficient than the VR sandwich panel followed by the Hollow sandwich panels. The average maximum displacement of RPF sandwich panel under different ranges of TNT charge (1 kg to 10 kg at a standoff distance of 1 m) is 49% and 53% less than the VR and Hollow sandwich panels, respectively. Detailed empirical design equations were provided to quantify the maximum deformation of the steel sandwich panels with different core materials and core thickness under a different range of blast loads. The developed equations can be used as a guide for engineer to design steel sandwich panels with RPF and VR core material under a different range of free air blast loads.
Keywords
3D nonlinear finite element analysis; rigid polyurethane foam (RPF); vulcanized rubber (VR); free air blast loads;
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