Dynamic fracture of explosion containment vessels subjected to internal blast loads is the foundation for conducting safety assessment and failure analysis of explosion containment vessels. The experiments were carried out to investigate dynamic fracture characteristics of cylindrical steel shells subjected to internal blast loadings at the centers. The elastic-plastic response of cylindrical steel shells was conducted using nonlinear dynamic finite element analysis code LS-DYNA. The fracture mode and fracture mechanism of a cylindrical shell were specially studied through analysis of deformation， macrographs of fracture surface and elastic-plastic response. The results show that dynamical ductility deformations appear and the shear bands form when the cylindrical steel shell expands under internal blast loading. The cylindrical steel shell fractures preferentially along the shear bands due to its softening effect. The fracture mechanism is that the shear bands tear under tensile circumferential stress. The shear bands and the tensile circumferential stress dominate the final fracture mode. The fracture mode is of the ductile fracture.

Resistance strain gauge is common used in strain measurement, particularly in small elastic strain measurement, it has many advantages. However when the measured strain increases, the output nonlinearity of the Wheatstone bridge will become obvious; in this paper the nonlinearity error of the output in large-strain measurement is analyzed, and based on this a mathematical algorithm for nonlinearity compensation is proposed; finally the effect of the algorithm for nonlinearity compensation is proved by theoretical research and experimental treatment.

Broken rules of cylindrical steel shell subjected to internal blast loads is the foundation for conducting safety assessment and failure analysis of explosion containment vessels. The experiments were carried out broken rules of the cylindrical steel shells subjected to internal blast loadings at the centers. The elastic-plastic response of cylindrical steel shells was conducted using nonlinear dynamic finite element analysis code LS-DYNA. The results show that the deformation was’t a discrepancy in the explosion center of the cylindrical steel shell in same space, and the deformation descended slower along with thickness augmentation in the end of explosion center. The radial stress、hoop stress and axial stress was a discrepancy in the thickness way of cylindrical steel shell of explosion center The most leading cause of destructivity of cylindrical steel shell was that inner wall bearing normal stress and exterior wall bearing tensile stress; the hoop stress was broken more than axial stress cylindrical steel shell. The whole process was presenting hoop fractured and axial growth.