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Abstract

This paper presents the issue of determining the blast load on an engineering structure. In cases of industrial accidents or terrorist attacks, in many cases it is necessary to determine the necessary explosion parameters to determine the response of the structure, preferably in a simple and time-saving manner. In such a way, the empirical relationships can be used to estimate the selected parameters of the explosion load. Many empirical relationships have been derived in the past, but not all are suitable for different types of explosions. This article compares and validates experimentally determined selected explosion parameters for the chosen explosive with empirical relationships. For comparison, three already verified and frequently used calculation procedures (Kingery, Kinney, Henrych) and one newly derived procedure (PECH) were used. As part of the experimental measurements, blast wave explosion parameters for small charges were determined for near-field explosions. The general-purpose plastic explosive Semtex 10-SE was used for the experiments. The results of the comparative study presented in this article demonstrate the importance of taking these procedures into account for a reliable determination of the effects of blast actions on buildings.

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Title
Experimental and Empirical Study for Prediction of Blast Loads
Author
Filice, Anselmo 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Mynarz, Miroslav 2 ; Zinno, Raffaele 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 Department of Computer Science, Modeling, Electronics and Systems Engineering, DIMES, University of Calabria, 87036 Arcavacata, Italy; Department of Environmental Engineering, DIAM, University of Calabria, 87036 Arcavacata, Italy; [email protected] 
 Faculty of Safety Engineering, VSB, Technical University of Ostrava, 70833 Ostrava, Czech Republic; [email protected] 
 Department of Environmental Engineering, DIAM, University of Calabria, 87036 Arcavacata, Italy; [email protected] 
First page
2691
Publication year
2022
Publication date
2022
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
20763417
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2637583313
Copyright
© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.