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Structural Engineering and Mechanics
  Volume 31, Number 1, January10 2009 , pages 25-38
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/sem.2009.31.1.025
 


Local response of W-shaped steel columns under blast loading
Kyungkoo Lee, Taejin Kim and Jinkoo Kim

 
Abstract
    Local failure of a primary structural component induced by direct air-blast loading may be itself a critical damage and lead to the partial or full collapse of the building. As an extensive research to
mitigate blast-induced hazards in steel frame structure, a state-of-art analytical approach or high-fidelity computational nonlinear continuum modeling using computational fluid dynamics was described in this paper. The capability of the approach to produce reasonable blast pressures on a steel wide-flange section column was first evaluated. Parametric studies were conducted to observe the effects of section sizes and boundary conditions on behavior and failure of columns in steel frame structures. This study shows that the analytical approach is reasonable and effective to understand the nature of blast wave and complex interaction between blast loading and steel column behavior.
 
Key Words
    computational fluid-dynamics; fluid-structure interaction; blast load; steel column.
 
Address
Kyungkoo Lee: Dept. of Architectural Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
Taejin Kim and Jinkoo Kim: Dept. of Architectural Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, Korea
 

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