explosion and fire on an offshore rig can lead to its minor or complete damage and sinking which means the loss of life or environmental pollution. hence the use of techniques such as blast wall is crucial to reduce the detrimental effects. these blast walls are designed for explosion wave of length between 0.1 to 1 of load mainly to protect the personnel and critical sections. in this research...

explosion and fire on an offshore rig can lead to its minor or complete damage and sinking which means the loss of life or environmental pollution. hence the use of techniques such as blast wall is crucial to reduce the detrimental effects. these blast walls are designed for explosion wave of length between 0.1 to 1 of load mainly to protect the personnel and critical sections. in this research...

This research effort focuses on the evaluation of existing design standards for cold-formed steel stud walls and the development of retrofit wall systems. Full-scale wall systems are tested under uniform static pressure using a vacuum chamber. The resistance functions obtained are used to model the dynamic behavior of the walls and to predict performance under blast conditions. This paper focus...

We present a complete atlas of the Cygnus Loop supernova remnant in the light of [O III] (λ5007), Hα, and [S II] (λλ6717, 6731). We include low-resolution (25) global maps and smaller fields at 6 resolution from observations using the Prime Focus Corrector on the 0.8-m telescope at McDonald Observatory. Despite its shell-like appearance, the Cygnus Loop is not a current example of a Sedov-Taylo...

Fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) products are used as an alternative to traditional methods for strengthening and retrofitting concrete and masonry structures to resist blast loads. The development and experimental validation of a methodology for modeling the response of blast loaded concrete and masonry structural components retrofitted with FRP, as well as corresponding response criteria, is im...

Explosion and fire on an offshore rig can lead to its minor or complete damage and sinking which means the loss of life or environmental pollution. Hence the use of techniques such as blast wall is crucial to reduce the detrimental effects. These blast walls are designed for explosion wave of length between 0.1 to 1 of load mainly to protect the personnel and critical sections. In this research...

This report presents the study on the design and analysis of stainless steel profiled barriers subjected to blast loading generated from typical hydrocarbon explosions. The Technical Note 5 (TN5) issued by the Fire and Blast Information Group and a time domain finite element commercial software packages will be used for the above purposes. Particular attention is given to the plastic response o...