BLAST LOADING ON STRUCTURES FROM THE EXPLOSIONS NEAR THE GROUND SURFACE
Machines. Technologies. Materials., Vol. 9 (2015), Issue 12, pg(s) 84-87
The paper describes the process of determining the blast load on structures and provides a numerical example of a fictive structure exposed to this load. The aim was to become familiar with the issue of blast load because of ever growing terrorist threat and the lack of guidelines from national and European regulations on the verification of structures exposed to explosions. The blast load was analytically determined as a pressure-time history.