The behavior of confined masonry walls against outside contact blast loading

摘要

Study of behavior of building structures under blast loads is an important issue for design of high reliable structures made of concrete material. Hence, in previous studies the enclosed wall under blast loads, open-air explosion has been investigated through experiments. In this study, the experimental results reported in the literature for dynamic performance of a masonry wall subjected to high strain dynamic loads (i.e. contact blast and air burst test) are simulated numerically using finite element method (FEM) by utilizing soft particle hydrodynamics (SPH). Comparison of simulated numerical results with the experimental data demonstrates the ability and accuracy of FEM analyses in predicting the response of confined masonry walls subjected to dynamic loads.