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Composite structural panels subjected to explosive loading.

By Heng, Leonard; Lan, Shengrui; Lok, Tat-Seng
Publication: Construction and Building Materials
Date: Wednesday, June 1 2005

Abstract

Details of an extensive large-scale test programme on a series of composite structural components subjected to explosive loading are presented in this paper. The test components include conventional reinforced concrete slabs, steel fibre reinforced concrete slabs, profiled steel sheeting reinforced concrete slabs, steel air-steel sandwich panels and steel-concrete-steel sandwich panels. A total of seventy four specimens were tested using seventeen detonation phases; with charge weight ranging between 8 and 100 kg of bare high explosives and each at stand-off d

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