Update 1.1 to “DYNAblast – A software to obtain the behavior of plates subjected to blast loads”

Abstract

Structures subjected to explosive loading have become a reality in recent years. With the advent of wars and terrorists’ attacks around the world, it has become extremely necessary to understand the behavior of civil engineering structures as to resist such extreme loads. In this way, the DYNAblast 1.0 software needed to be updated to include another equation to characterize the explosion, the extended positive phase, as well as allowing the user to manipulate the distance between the explosive source and the target as an input data, thus making DYNAblast 1.1 a more complete software.

Keywords

• Extended positive phase
• Dynamic analysis
• Blast loads
• Membrane effect
• Nonlinearity