Review Article
An Overview of Methods for Blast Load Testing and Devices for Pressure Measurement
Table 6
Numerical simulations used for calculating blast effects.
| Test type | Author | Year | Element type | Software | Formulation | FE type | Symmetry | Mesh size (mm) |
| Field tests | Ohtsu et al. [23] | 2007 | Slab | BEM | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | Wei et al. [12] | 2007 | Slab | ABAQUS | N/A | Solid, shell | Yes (1 : 4) | N/A | Schenker et al. [9] | 2008 | Slab | LS-DYNA | N/A | Shell | N/A | N/A | Wu et al. [86] | 2011 | Column | LS-DYNA | MM-ALE | Solid, beam | No | 50 | Foglar and Kovar [17] | 2013 | Slab | LS-DYNA | N/A | Solid, beam | No | 30 and 50 | Tabatabaei et al. [22] | 2013 | Slab | LS-DYNA | Lagrange | Solid, beam | No | N/A | Zhao and Chen [14] | 2013 | Slab | LS-DYNA | N/A | Solid, beam | Yes (1 : 4) | N/A | Castedo et al. [4] | 2015 | Slab | LS-DYNA | Lagrange | Solid, shell, beam | Yes (1 : 2) | 15, 5 and 50 | Foglar et al. [18] | 2015 | Slab | LS-DYNA | N/A | Solid, beam | No | N/A | Li et al. [24] | 2015 | Slab | LS-DYNA | SPH | Solid, beam | No | 8 and 40 | Mao et al. [19] | 2015 | Slab | LS-DYNA | N/A | N/A | No | N/A | Mazurkiewicz et al. [31] | 2015 | Column | LS-DYNA | Euler Lagrange MM-ALE | Shell | No | N/A | Codina et al. [32] | 2016 | Column | AUTODYN | Euler Lagrange | Solid, beam | No | 10 |
| Shock tubes | Ellis et al. [10] | 2014 | Slab | ABAQUS | N/A | Solid | No | 12.7 and 16 | Thiagarajan et al. [40] | 2015 | Slab | LS-DYNA | N/A | Solid, beam | No | 25.4, 12.7 and 6.35 |
| Blast pendulum systems | Heinchie et al. [63] | 2014 | Plate | ABAQUS | MM-ALE | Solid | No | N/A | Fallah et al. [61] | 2014 | Plate | AUTODYN and ABAQUS | N/A | Solid | No | N/A | Guan et al. [62] | 2014 | Plate | ABAQUS | N/A | Solid, shell | No | N/A | Li et al. [65] | 2014 | Panel | AUTODYN | MM-ALE | Shell | Yes (1 : 4) | 0.05 |
| Blast simulator | Oesterle [75] | 2009 | Wall | LS-DYNA | Lagrange | Brick, beam, shell | No | N/A | Stewart [77] | 2010 | Column | LS-DYNA | Lagrange | Shell | No | 12.7 | Huson [72] | 2012 | Beam and plate | LS-DYNA | N/A | Continuum elements | No | N/A | Li et al. [50] | 2012 | Column | LS-DYNA | N/A | N/A | No | N/A | Stewart [78] | 2012 | Column | LS-DYNA | Lagrange | Shell | No | N/A | Stewart [79] | 2014 | Column | LS-DYNA | Lagrange | Shell | No | 12.7 | Stewart et al. [67] | 2014 | Column | LS-DYNA | Lagrange | Shell | No | N/A |
| Blast chambers | Wu et al. [70] | 2013 | Chamber | AUTODYN | Euler | N/A | No | 10 | Snyman et al. [84] | 2016 | Chamber | AUTODYN | Euler Lagrange | N/A | axi | 10 and 4 |
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