Numerical simulation of the fluid-structure interaction between air blast waves and free-standing plates

Computers and Structures

Volumn 85, Issue 11-14, 2007, Pages 923-931

  Kambouchev, Nayden ^a   Noels, Ludovic ^a,b   Radovitzky, Raul ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Air blast waves; Blast loads; Compressibility effects; Fluid structure interaction; Impulse transmission; Inertia effects

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIBILITY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; WAVE EFFECTS;

AIR BLAST WAVES; BLAST LOADS; COMPRESSIBILITY EFFECTS; IMPULSE TRANSMISSION; INERTIA EFFECTS;

FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION;

EID: 34248159016     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2006.11.005     Document Type: Article

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