Predicting the effectiveness of blast wall barriers using neural networks

International Journal of Impact Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1907-1923

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blast loads; Blast walls; Explosion; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

BLAST RESISTANCE; DAMAGE DETECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

BLAST BARRIERS; BLAST LOADS; BLAST OVERPRESSURES; BLAST WALLS;

EXPLOSIONS;

EID: 34347234534     PISSN: 0734743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijimpeng.2006.11.003     Document Type: Article

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