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Behavior of structures subjected to an explosion

Author: Laurent PARIS

Publication date: April 10, 2010

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3. Determining explosion actions

3.1 Assessing the effects of an explosion

An explosion is characterized by an applied overpressure as a function of time. The parameters relevant to the structural calculation have been determined beforehand by one of the methods proposed in .

For each critical element, it is necessary to characterize the waveform and the main parameters:

  • peak overpressure ;

  • wave duration ;

  • impulse.

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