Abstract: Cladding components are critical when designing a building to resist blast loads, as they are the first to receive the applied airblast pressure. A recent trend is to design them in order to reduce the blast pressure ...

Abstract: A common approach of blast-resistant design for external detonation is to design the envelope of a structure to absorb most of the applied blast load impulse, by exploiting the mechanisms of plastic energy absorption and ...

Abstract: Characterizing structural resiliency after severe damage to a few load-carrying members is challenging. Engineers use various computational approaches to assess the vulnerability of structures and to evaluate the parameters ...