Blast Mitigation using Rigid Polyurethane Foam to Strengthen Buried Structures

Mazek, Sherif A.; Soliman, Mohamed A.; Amer, Nabil H.

doi:10.21608/iccae.2014.44121

Blast Mitigation using Rigid Polyurethane Foam to Strengthen Buried Structures

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Civil Engineering Department, Military Technical College, Cairo, Egypt.

10.21608/iccae.2014.44121

Abstract

Abstract
The use of the rigid polyurethane foam (RPF) to strengthen buried structures against blast terror has great interests from engineering experts in structural retrofitting. The aim of this study is to use the RPF to strengthen the buried structures under blast load. The buried structure is considered to study the RPF as structural retrofitting. The Guowei model (Guowei et al. 2010) is considered as a case study. The finite element analysis (FEA) is also used to model the buried structure under shock wave. The buried structure performance is studied based on detonating different TNT explosive charges. There is a good agreement between the results obtained by both the Guowei model and the proposed numerical model. The RPF improves the buried structure performance under the blast wave propagation.

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