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In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree Master of science In Structural Engineering
1. Objective
This project will be studied Reinforced concrete columns behavior due to explosive detonation. This study will provide potential resistance energy after variety located detonation near to or attached to columns. The test result will address to optimum design forces resist to blast loading. The experiment will be done computer analysis, known as finite element analysis program, because of hardship of real explosive experiment. This research expects to bring some idea for optimal design to resist versus to blast load or impact load.
and reinforcing
tE=time gap from first impact to peak response; Es =steel elastic modulus; and fdy=dynamic increase factor.
3. Proposed Investigations
Blast load is one of the dynamic loads, short time period dynamic load. In concrete columns, longitudinal and lap splice will prevent failure against to lateral forces. In this study, will study and exam relationship between ratio and variety located explosive detonations. All of this experiment will be tested by finite element computer analysis(by using LS-dyna).
4. Deliverables
Series of columns of reinforced concrete structure by changing and lap spacing. Design of detonation (types of explosive and size of charges) Test result from Finite Element Analysis Prgram, (LS Dyna) <Test Matrix 1> experiment number 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Height distance Potential Axial Load ratio of longitudinal
bottom bottom bottom bottom bottom bottom middle middle middle middle middle middle
attached to column 3ft 6ft 9ft 12ft 15ft attached to column 3ft 6ft 9ft 12ft 15ft
experiment number
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Tie spacing
Spiral Reinforcement
x x x x x x x 100% 100% 100% 100% 130% 160% 190%
5. Time line
Attached as additional document
6. Budget
7. Bibliography
1) American Institute of Steel Construction. Seismic Provisions for Structural Steel Buildings. Chicago, IL, 2005 2) American Society of Civil Engineers. Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures: ASCE 7-05. New York, NY, 2005. 3) American Institute of Steel Construction. Manual of Steel Construction. Thirteenth Edition. Chicago, IL, 2005. 4) Arup K. Maji, F.ASCE; Jay P. Brown; and Girum S. Urgessa, Full-Scale Testing and Analysis for Blast-Resistant Design,2008 5) Baker, W. E. Explosions in air, University of Texas Press, Austin, TX 1973 6) Becker, R. and Ishler, M. Seismic design practice for eccentrically braced frames . Structural Steel Educational Council, Moraga, CA, 1996. 7) Chia Ming Uang et al. Seismic design of steel structures. The seismic design handbook. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, Mass, 2001 8) Crawford, J. E.,Malvar, L. J. Wesevich, J. W., Valancius, J., and Reynolds, A. D. (1997) Retrofit of reinforced concrete structures to resis blast effects 9) Michel Bruneau, Chia-Ming Uang, and Andrew Stuart Whittaker. Ductile Design of Steel Structures. McGraw-Hill, New York, NY, 1998 10) NAVAFAC, Joint Departments of the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force._1990_. Structures to resist the effects of accidental explosions.