Recent world events such as bombings in London, Madrid and Istanbul have highlighted the
susceptibility of many civilian structures to terrorist attack. Explosives directed towards …

Elastomeric coatings are being advocated as excellent retrofit materials for strategic
applications, particularly for blast mitigation and ballistic protection. Polyurea, an elastomer …

There is an urgent need to develop appropriate techniques that will enable structural
engineers to design and assess building structures which are vulnerable to blast events to …

This paper presents the results of a study examining the blast load performance of ultra-high
performance fiber reinforced concrete (UHPFRC) columns. As part of the experimental …

Civilian buildings have been imposed to blast loading, resulting in irrecoverable damages
and casualties. This paper studies the analytical and numerical performance of concrete …

Reinforced concretes (RC) have been widely used in constructions. In construction, one of
the critical elements carrying a high percentage of the weight is columns which were not …

We investigate the resistance of reinforced concrete panels (RCPs) due to explosive loading
using nonlinear finite element analysis and surrogate models. Therefore, gene expression …

Blasts resulted from industrial/residential accidents and deliberate attacks can impose
extremely hazardous loading conditions upon nearby structures. The repercussions of these …

In this study, numerical simulations are performed to construct the Pressure-Impulse (PI)
diagrams for FRP strengthened RC columns to provide correlations between the damage …

Recently, fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) usages for strengthening RC infrastructures have
been continuously increasing. Especially, the use of FRPs to strengthen structures against a …