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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF IMPACT ENGINEERING
Volume 151, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijimpeng.2021.103822
Keywords
blast response; plates; plastic deformation; transient response; charge backing
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- UCT University Research Committee
- David and Elaine Potter Foundation
- National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa
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This paper presents new insights into the critical influence of explosive charge backing on the impulse transfer and transient response characteristics of plates subjected to close-proximity air blast loading. The increase in impulse transfer caused by metal backing was found to be 3-5 times larger than for air backing, indicating the significant impact of charge backing on blast protection engineering.
This paper presents new insights into the influence of explosive charge backing on the impulse transfer and transient response characteristics of plates subjected to close-proximity air blast loading. The results of the combine experimental and computational studies show the critical influence of charge backing, which caused between a 3-5 times increase in the impulse transfer when the charge was metal-backed. The permanent deflections from the metal-backed detonations were larger than for air, but not to the same degree as the impulse increase. These findings demonstrate the important influence of charge backing, in close proximity detonations, which greatly exceeded anything previously measured. These valuable insights will assist blast protection engineers considering the effects of explosions in situations when the charge backing is something other than air, which is a frequent occurrence in explosion scenarios.
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