Modelling blast loads on buildings in complex city geometries

Computers and Structures

Volumn 83, Issue 27, 2005, Pages 2197-2205

  Remennikov, Alex M ^a   Rose, Timothy A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blast loads; Explosion; Numerical simulation; Urban environment

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPLOSIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRUCTURAL LOADS;

BLAST LOADS; COMPLEX CITY GEOMETRIES; URBAN ENVIRONMENT; URBAN TERRAIN;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 24044436180     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2005.04.003     Document Type: Article

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