Multi-Physics Blast Analysis for Steel-Plated and GFRP-Plated Concrete Panels

Abstract

The blast damage behaviors of steel-plated and glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP)-plated concrete panels exposed to explosive are investigated. In order to improve efficiency and accuracy of numerical analysis, the multi-physics method of coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian discretization is used. To enhance the reliability of the simulation results, the equation of state, strength, and failure model of materials are implemented in an explicit program, AUTODYN. In particular, the implemented formulation includes the strain rate-dependent plasticity for concrete and a transversely isotropic elastic constitutive model for GFRP. The retrofitted concrete panels are compared to non-retrofitted concrete panels; and the deflection and deflection ratio are reduced by steel and GFRP plates. To validate the implemented material models and analysis method, a comparison is made with the reported experimental results. The maximum deflection of the panel from the numerical analysis agrees closely with the results of the experiments. Finally, a discussion of the numerical results with respect to code criteria and energy absorption capacity is presented.