Numerical Study on the Effect of Different Steel Reinforcement Arrangement in Reinforced Concrete Wall Subjected to Blast Load

Abstract:

Reinforced concrete (RC) is the most preferred construction material for the civilian structural construction such as building and bridge because it is economical to build and possesses high strength. There have been several verified numerical studies on RC, but most have all been limited to the scope of a small rectangular or small square RC panel clamped at the edges. As a result, there is still a need for a complete RC structure for example RC wall with its foundation to represent as a single stand structure. With available validated complete RC structure experimentally and numerical data on blast pressure profile, detail numerical study is possible to investigate in depth. In AUTODYN commercial software, arbitrary Lagrange Euler (ALE) solvers are used to analyse the interaction between air and RC wall structure. The RC walls were built with the same moment resistance but a different hooked direction on vertical flexural steel reinforcement into the foundation. The numerical result indicated that in the hooked-in direction, the average strain at the back side of the wall peaked at 1.0625×10-3 at first 5 msec after impact, which is half of what it was in the hooked- out direction. Furthermore, the numerical simulation coincided with the experimental findings, where the proper steel arrangement for the RC wall subjected to blast was hooked-in.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 912)
• Pages: 199-209
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/p-ae9549
• Online since: March 2022
• Authors: Mazlan Abu Seman*, Sharifah Maszura Syed Mohsin, Ahmad Mujahid Ahmad Zaidi, Zainorizuan Mohd Jaini
• Keywords: Ansys, Autodyn, Blast, Reinforced Concrete, Simulation, Structure, Wall

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