Response of structures to planar blast loads - A finite element engineering approach

Computers and Structures

Volumn 87, Issue 9-10, 2009, Pages 507-520

  Borvik T ^a,b   Hanssen, A G ^a,c   Langseth, M ^a   Olovsson, L ^a,d  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

^c IMPETUS Afea AS   (Norway)

^d IMPETUS Afea AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Blast load; Experimental results; LS DYNA; Numerical simulations; Structural response; Uncoupled and coupled Eulerian Lagrangian

Indexed keywords

BLAST LOAD; EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS; LS-DYNA; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE; UNCOUPLED AND COUPLED EULERIAN-LAGRANGIAN;

AERODYNAMIC LOADS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPLOSIVES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 64449085302     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2009.02.005     Document Type: Article

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