Damage evaluation of H-section steel columns under impulsive blast loads via gene expression programming

M Momeni, MA Hadianfard, C Bedon, A Baghlani - Engineering Structures, 2020 - Elsevier
Increasing terrorist attacks towards ordinary or strategic buildings and soft targets represent
one of the major impetus to improve existing methods of design for blast-resistant structures …

Experimental investigation into the close-in blast performance of RC columns with axial loading

Y Shi, Y Hu, L Chen, ZX Li, H Xiang - Engineering Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
The high cost and long consuming time of field blast test result in that the experimental study
on the blast performance of reinforced concrete (RC) column subjected to blast loads and …

Dynamic responses of RC columns under axial load and lateral impact

JM Sun, WJ Yi, H Chen, F Peng, Y Zhou… - Journal of Structural …, 2023 - ascelibrary.org
A novel pendulum test setup was designed to investigate the influence of the axial loading
method on the dynamic responses of reinforced concrete (RC) columns under impact load …

Reliability analysis of H-section steel columns under blast loading

MA Hadianfard, S Malekpour, M Momeni - Structural Safety, 2018 - Elsevier
In order to prevent structural collapse by terrorist attacks, the column behavior is highlighted
since when a column is damaged consequently losing its load bearing capacity, failure will …

An efficient reliability-based approach for evaluating safe scaled distance of steel columns under dynamic blast loads

M Momeni, C Bedon, MA Hadianfard, A Baghlani - Buildings, 2021 - mdpi.com
Damage to building load-bearing members (especially columns) under explosions and
impact are critical issues for structures, given that they may cause a progressive collapse …

Probabilistic progressive collapse analysis of steel frame structures against blast loads

Y Ding, X Song, HT Zhu - Engineering Structures, 2017 - Elsevier
This study investigates the failure probability of steel frame structures against terrorist attack
from Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED). A two-step approach is used to …

Structural performance of a steel cable-stayed bridge under blast loading considering different stay patterns

CD Tetougueni, P Zampieri, C Pellegrino - Engineering structures, 2020 - Elsevier
Accidental or extreme events can induce abnormal loads on structures contributing to a local
damage of primary components or to the progressive collapse of the structure. Although …

SDOF models for reinforced concrete beams under impulsive loads accounting for strain rate effects

F Stochino, G Carta - Nuclear Engineering and Design, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper, reinforced concrete beams subjected to blast and impact loads are examined.
Two single degree of freedom models are proposed to predict the response of the beam …

Numerical analysis of the blast wave propagation due to various explosive charges

L Figuli, D Cekerevac, C Bedon… - Advances in Civil …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Blast events and scenarios, as known, represent extreme phenomena that may result in
catastrophic consequences, both for humans and structures. Accordingly, for engineering …

Blast fragility assessment of aging coastal RC columns exposed to non-uniform CIC attacks using LBE function

H Li, L Li, M Ye, M Li, Y Wu - Journal of Building Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Along the service period of aging coastal reinforced concrete (RC) structures, chloride-
induced corrosion (CIC) is a major cause affecting their life-cycle performance and …