Plastic Deformation of Metal Tubes Subjected to Lateral Blast Loads

Table 3

Comparison between numerical simulation and experiment.

Distance (cm)	Numerical simulation		Experiment	Error
	(MPa)	Deflection (cm)	Deflection (cm)	%
2	22.13	7.98	7.51	+6.3
4	18.42	5.92	5.70	+3.8
6	12.26	4.02	4.22	−4.7
8	10.68	2.26	2.43	−6.9