Abstract Many engineering structures, especially defense applications, need to be reinforced against blast loads due a nearby explosion. Today, much more attention needs given this issue because of increased exposure explosions, and natural disasters. Different solutions have been used in the literature mitigate blast-loading effects. One these sandwich panels, are good candidate for applicatio...

Diesel fuel in motion when is transporting by pipes mixing, pumping, filtering, agitating or pouring them from one vessel to another can generate static charges. Also, electricity may occur if the liquid splashes and forms a mist inside tank. Accumulation of can, under certain conditions, be discharge ignite flammable/explosive atmosphere. Ignition hazards discharges eliminated controlling gene...

With resistance exercise, greater intensity typically elicits increased energy expenditure, but heavier loads require that the lifter perform more sets of fewer repetitions, which alters the kilograms lifted per set. Thus, the effect of exercise-intensity on energy expenditure has yielded varying results, especially with explosive resistance exercise. This study was designed to examine the effe...

Recent terror events such as the Manchester Arena bombing and Brussels Istanbul airport attacks featured improvised explosive devices detonated in crowded internal spaces. A blast wave that propagates presence of obstacles will have fundamentally different properties to those an unimpeded wave. Physical processes reflection, diffraction, superposition multiple fronts result highly complex situa...

In modern warfare, anti-vehicular mine attack is one of the critical consideration in the design of an armored personnel vehicle. Nowadays, the use of computational tools is a common approach in vehicle design process for evaluating the vehicle and its occupant’s safety or protective levels. This paper presents a finite element analysis carried out on the underbelly of SIBMAS AFSV 6x6 armored v...