| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/M72425/01 |
| Title: |
THE INFLUENCE OF URBAN GEOMETRY ON BLAST WAVE RESULTANTS & ASSOCIATED BUILDING DAMAGE |
| Principal Investigator: |
Smith, Dr PD |
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| Department: |
Engineering Systems |
| Organisation: |
Cranfield University |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 October 1999 |
Ends: |
30 September 2002 |
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116,395
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Building Ops & Management |
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Terrorist attacks on civilian targets have, in recent years, involved the use of increased weights of explosive material. This move to increased change size has significantly increased the number of buildings in an urban environment affected by the blast and the pattern of the damage inflicted on structures has become less easy to predict. For example, for a building relatively close to an explosion where all glazing elements might be expected to be destroyed, a substantial number are sometimes found to survive, while at a range where even weak glazing elements would be expected to survive, damage has sometimes been extensive. The primary aim of this research proposal is to enhance the understanding of how blast waves from a large explosion interact with buildings in an urban environment and to quantify features of the environment that influence the magnitude of blast wave resultants and hence the potential level of damage to buildings. This will be accomplished by small-scale experiments using generic urban layouts together with numerical simulation using the AUTODYN3D hydrocode. The proposed approach brings well-established experimental techniques and newly-developed numerical methods to bear on a problem that has, by virtue of its complexity, been until now largely intractable.
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http://www.cranfield.ac.uk |