Shock and Vibration
Volume 1, Issue 5, Pages 451-460
http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SAV-1994-1505
Fully Coupled FE Analyses of Buried Structures
Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MS 39180-6199, USA
Received 21 February 1994; Accepted 11 April 1994
Copyright © 1994 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Current procedures for determining the response of buried structures to the effects of the detonation of buried high explosives recommend decoupling the free-field stress analysis from the structure response analysis. A fully coupled (explosive–soil structure) finite element analysis procedure was developed so that the accuracies of current decoupling procedures could be evaluated. Comparisons of the results of analyses performed using this procedure with scale-model experiments indicate that this finite element procedure can be used to effectively evaluate the accuracies of the methods currently being used to decouple the free-field stress analysis from the structure response analysis.