Advances in Civil Engineering

Advancements in the Analysis and Design of Protective Structures against Extreme Loadings 2020


Publishing date
01 Nov 2020
Status
Closed
Submission deadline
03 Jul 2020

Lead Editor

1Southeast University, Suzhou, China

2, Curtin University, Perth, Australia

3Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

4University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

5University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

6Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland

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Advancements in the Analysis and Design of Protective Structures against Extreme Loadings 2020

This issue is now closed for submissions.

Description

The rising of terrorist bombing threats and industrial explosion accidents highlight the necessity and importance of structural protection against intentional and accidental loadings such as blast and impact. The consequences of such extreme loading conditions have been found to be catastrophic with massive personnel injuries and fatalities, economic loss, and immeasurable social disruption in their wake. It is therefore imperative to enlighten the design of modern structures with consideration of protection against such extreme loadings.

Blast and impact loadings have the natures of short duration and high energy intensity, which results in very different structural response as comparing to when subjected to conventional quasi-static and less intense dynamic loading such as wind load and earthquake load. The analysis and design of conventional structures, therefore, cannot be directly implemented to the design of protective structures against extreme loadings. Moreover, the structural response and material behavior under blast and impact loading are usually nonlinear and time-dependent, involving complex stress states due to stress wave propagation. Simplified analysis and design approaches are not necessarily leading to reliable predictions. Comprehensive understanding about loading characteristics, dynamic material properties, and dynamic response predictions of structures are crucial to reliable and accurate predictions.

Recently, various efforts, including experiment testing, numerical simulation, and analytical derivation, have been devoted to achieving a reliable analysis and design of protective structures. Experimental testing includes both laboratory and field tests, which can demonstrate actual structural behaviors and also be used to validate the fidelity of numerical models. With the advancement of computer technology and computational mechanics, different numerical methods have been developed and employed to model the structural response to blast and impact loadings. Simplified approaches such single-degree-of-freedom and close-form solutions have been used to predict and analyze the structural response. All in all, the analysis and design of protective structures against blast and impact loadings in general is still a challenge.

This Special Issue aims to present the state-of-the-art research and understandings on the analysis and design of protective structures against blast and impact loading. Both original research articles, as well as review articles discussing the current state of the art, are welcomed.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

  • Structural response to blast loading
  • Structural vulnerability to gas explosion
  • Vulnerability of structures to impact loading
  • Structural vulnerability to windborne debris impact
  • Projectile penetration and perforation of structures
  • Prediction and simulation of explosion impact loading
  • Innovative materials and behaviors at high strain rates
  • Strengthening and mitigation of infrastructural protection

Articles

  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2020
  • - Article ID 8876646
  • - Research Article

Analysis of Hazard Area of Dispersion Caused by Leakage from Underground Gas-Storage Caverns in Salt Rock

Ya Yang | Shigang Yang | ... | Wensheng Sun
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2020
  • - Article ID 5135194
  • - Research Article

Partitioned Strong Coupling of Discrete Elements with Large Deformation Structural Finite Elements to Model Impact on Highly Flexible Tension Structures

Klaus Bernd Sautter | Tobias Teschemacher | ... | Roland Wüchner
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2020
  • - Article ID 8818728
  • - Research Article

Investigation on Influences of  Two Discrete Methods on Galloping Characteristics of Iced Quad Bundle Conductors

Xiaohui Liu | Guangyun Min | ... | Mengqi Cai
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2020
  • - Article ID 8835355
  • - Research Article

Experimental Investigation of Unloading-Induced Red Sandstone Failure: Insight into Spalling Mechanism and Strength-Weakening Effect

Yong Luo | Fengqiang Gong | Dongqiao Liu
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2020
  • - Article ID 8884133
  • - Research Article

Numerical Evaluation of Reinforced Concrete Columns Retrofitted with FRP for Blast Mitigation

Jing Dong | Junhai Zhao | Dongfang Zhang
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2020
  • - Article ID 8837657
  • - Research Article.

A Method for Determining Feasibility of Mining Residual Coal above Out-Fashioned Goaf under Variable Load: A Case Study

Yuxia Guo | Honghui Yuan | ... | Dao Viet Doan
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2020
  • - Article ID 8867202
  • - Research Article

Assessment of Cascading Accidents of Frostbite, Fire, and Explosion Caused by Liquefied Natural Gas Leakage

Chengjun Yue | Li Chen | ... | Qin Fang
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2020
  • - Article ID 8882976
  • - Research Article

Experimental Investigation on Strength and Deformation Characteristics of Red Sandstone at Strain Rates of 10−2∼55 s−1

Jie Shi | Zongmu Luo | ... | Zeng Li
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2020
  • - Article ID 8861605
  • - Research Article

Experimental and Mathematical Modeling of Monotonic Behavior of Calcareous Sand

Haotian Zhang | Zongmu Luo | ... | Jian Tang
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2020
  • - Article ID 2109535
  • - Research Article

Computation Method for the Settlement of a Vertically Loaded Pile in Sloping Ground

Chong Jiang | Wen-yan Wu | ... | Lu-jie Chen
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