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Acta Armamentarii ›› 2024, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (3): 864-874.doi: 10.12382/bgxb.2022.0897

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Experimental Study on the Damage Characteristics and Laws of RC Beams under Close-in Blast Loading of Thermobaric Explosives

LIU Ju1, ZHANG Guokai1,*(), WANG Zhen1, YAO Jian1, LI Jie2, YU Siyuan1, JI Yuguo1   

  1. 1 School of Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, Jiangsu, China
    2 State Key Laboratory of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation of Explosion and Impact, Army Engineering University of PLA, Nanjing 210007, Jiangsu, China
  • Received:2022-10-06 Online:2023-01-11
  • Contact: ZHANG Guokai

Abstract:

As a high-energy density explosive, the blast damage effect and mechanism of thermobaric explosive are different from traditional explosives. First of all, the characteristics and propagation law of thermobaric explosive blast shock wave are studied through the open space thermobaric explosive blast shock wave and thermal effect test. High-speed camera technology and fiber optic multispectral line temperature measurement technology are used to analyze the evolution characteristics of explosive fireball and the fireball surface temperature change pattern. Secondly, in order to study the destructive effect of the blast loads of thermobaric explosives on reinforced concrete structures, two typical reinforced concrete beams were subjected to explosion tests with different proportional blast distances. The damage characteristics and laws of two kinds of reinforced concrete (RC) beams with different charges and distances were elucidated. The research results show that, compared to TNT, the blast shock wave of thermobaric explosive has a large overpressure peak, long positive pressure action time and slow decay of peak characteristics, the thermobaric explosive blast temperature reaches up to 2400K, more than 1000K high temperature duration is more than 160ms, and the high impulse blast impact and sustained high temperature action lead to a greater degree of damage to reinforced concrete structures. Combining the effect of charges on the pattern of destruction, a damage criterion based on the proportional scaled distance and the amount of charge is proposed for reinforced concrete beams under the close-in (0.2-0.75m) blast loading of thermobaric explosives.

Key words: thermobaric explosive, reinforced concrete beam, damage characteristics, damage criterion

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