Blast load assessment using hydrocodes

Engineering Structures

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1736-1744

  Luccioni, B ^a,b   Ambrosini, D ^a,c   Danesi, R ^b  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CUYO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Blast loads; Numerical analysis; Pressure distribution; Shock waves; Wave propagation; Wave reflection

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; EXPLOSIVES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; SHOCK WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BLAST LOADS; COMPUTATIONAL DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; IMPULSE DISTRIBUTION; WAVE REFLECTION;

BLASTING;

BLASTING; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; EXPLOSIVES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; SHOCK WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; BUILDING; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; EXPLOSION; NUMERICAL METHOD; PRESSURE EFFECT; SHOCK WAVE; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE REFLECTION;

ARGENTINA; BUENOS AIRES [ARGENTINA]; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33746571533     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2006.02.016     Document Type: Article

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