Experimental Study of the Effectiveness of Sacrificial Cladding Using Polymeric Foams as Crushable Core with a Simply Supported Steel Beam

Figure 7

(a) Labview code used to track the middle point of the simply supported beam based on the video recorded by HSC1, (b) the equivalent SDOF system, and (c) the midspan response of a simply supported beam under a localized blast load for three tests.

(a)

(b)

(c)