Blast Test and Failure Mechanisms of Soft-Core Sandwich Panels for Storage Halls Applications

Studziński, Robert; Gajewski, Tomasz; Malendowski, Michał; Sumelka, Wojciech; Al-Rifaie, Hasan; Peksa, Piotr; Sielicki, Piotr W.

doi:10.3390/ma14010070

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“…The 1 kg of TNT, refers to the situation when industrial infrastructural elements, such as gas cylinders, are located at a close distance from the structural elements. For example, in case of accidental explosion of 20L of propane cylinder or 20L of acetylene cylinder, they release blast energy equivalent to that of 0.82 kg and 0.86 kg of TNT, respectively (Studziński et al, 2021, Sielicki et al, 2017.…”

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Modern Trends in Research on Steel, Aluminium and Composite Structures

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involvement in the organisation of the 14th International Conference of Metal Structures is perceived by me as a distinction, but also as a proof of trust in the University. This activity fits perfectly the University mission to educate at all levels of higher education and in lifelong learning programs in close connection with scientific and research development. Nowadays, Poznan University of Technology offers education at 9 fac ulties, covering a total of 33 fields of study. Nearly 16,000 students study here and over 1,300 academic teachers cater to their education. The didactic offer of Poznan University of Tech nology covers the most important fields related to modern technology with a recently launched program in Artificial Intelligence; it is also well adapted to the requirements of both domestic and foreign employers. High-quality scientific research is an integral element of Poznan University of Technology strategy, characterized by scientific achievements of its employees who published more than 2,000 scientific contributions: highly ranked articles, monographs, textbooks and other publications. The total number of PUT Library collections is over 450,000 volumes. Among numerous achievements, the University is proud of the H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellowships and ERC grants. Furthermore, our sci entists are among the authorities of the Polish Academy of Sciences (9 representatives) and are also members of numerous international scientific societies. According to Shanghai Rank ing 2020 edition in disciplines, PUT was classified among the best 400 universities in the world in Mechanical Engineering. Also, we are ranked by students as the most popular university in Poland according to the Ministry of Science and Higher Education in the 2020/2021 academic year.Owing to EU funding, recent years have introduced the development of research infrastruc ture at the Warta university campus. In 2020 our University also became a leader of European University EUNICEa project funded by the European Commission with a budget of more than 6 million EUR. Our university consortium partners originate from Belgium, Germany, France, Finland, Italy and Spain. EUNICE's main goal is to build a common European Uni versity of the future, and prepare its structure and management design within 3 years. EUNICE is aspiring to provide a high-quality digital learning, offering flexible and multidis ciplinary studies, as well as opportunities for students and staff for international exchange and networking. EUNICE will develop modern and innovative pedagogical methods and provide enhanced student services, in terms of enrolment, recognition, student counselling and guid ance aimed at boosting the employability of all students. Just recently, PUT was also granted by the European Commission a follow-up scientific project REUNICE. This H2020 strategic project for the European University Alliance EUNICE aims at aligning its education, research and innovation strategies through an ambitious and transformative agenda.Therefore, I am ...

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“…Sandwich structures are widely applied in the aerospace, vehicle, ship, and packaging industries owing to their advantages of being lightweight, having a high specific strength, a strong crashworthiness, and a high energy absorption efficiency. In recent years, due to their excellent energy absorption capacity, they have received increasing attention in the field of structure protection [ 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 ]. In general, a sandwich structure is composed of solid face and back plates, and a lightweight cellular core.…”

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In-Plane Impact Response of Graded Foam Concrete-Filled Auxetic Honeycombs

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Jia²,

Liu³

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Foam-filled honeycombs have been widely applied due to their excellent load transfer mitigation and energy absorption capacity. In the present study, a layered graded foam concrete-filled auxetic honeycomb was proposed by tuning its overall compression deformation mode to layer-by-layer deformation mode to realize multi-level structural protection. The effect of the honeycomb cell-wall thickness gradient (with an average thickness of 0.25 mm, thickness gradients of 0.30:0.25:0.20, 0.35:0.25:0.15 and 0.40:0.25:0.10, and corresponding positive gradients) and the foam concrete filler density gradient (408:575:848, 848:575:408) on the response mode, load transfer, energy absorption, and Poisson’s ratio of the proposed composite was systematically investigated. The results showed that the graded composite exhibited an obvious layered deformation mode and a negative Poisson’s ratio effect under relatively low and moderate loading rates (1 m/s, 10 m/s, respectively), especially with the foam concrete density gradient. Under a high loading rate (100 m/s), the graded composite demonstrated progressive collapse initiating from the loading end with a layer-by-layer crushing mode, regardless of the thickness and density gradient. In the response of the composite with a 0.2:0.2:0.2 thickness ratio and a 408:575:848 foam concrete gradient subjected to 1 m/s crushing, the first-layer, second-layer, and third-layer foam concrete absorbed 94.62%, 88.72%, and 86.94% of the total foam concrete energy absorption in the corresponding crushing stage, respectively. Compared with the counterpart homogeneous composites, although the graded composite had an insignificant improvement on energy absorption (less than 5%), it was able to significantly reduce the peak load (as high as 30%) to mitigate the load transfer to the protected structure. The effective Poisson’s ratio of the first layer in the composite with positive gradient (408:575:848) increased to −2 then converged to −0.6 under 2 m/s and 10 m/s crushing, and ranged from −0.4 to −0.1 under 50 m/s and 100 m/s crushing, respectively. The effective Poisson’s ratio of the middle and bottom layers increased to −2 initially and converged to range −0.4 to −0.1, regardless of the crushing speed. The staged response mode of the graded composite facilitated the realization of multi-level structure protection with significantly reduced peak load transferred to the protected structure and tuned energy absorption.

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“…Additionally, the debris from such a barrier is less likely to occur since the steel is less brittle than concrete. Also, the soft-core sandwich panels for civil structures (Studziński et al., 2015), may be adopted as a blast mitigation barrier (Studziński et al., 2021). Still, those structures are often analysed for static scenarios (Pozorska and Pozorski, 2017).…”

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Application verification of blast mitigation through the use of thuja hedges

Gajewski

Peksa

Studziński

et al. 2022

International Journal of Protective Structures

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Nowadays, large gatherings of people, such as open-air concerts, outdoor-sport events, trade fairs, etc., are often attracted by the terrorists. Recently, an interesting passive alternative way of securing such events against terrorist threats appeared in the scientific literature, in which the tree hedges mitigation potential against blast waves were studied. Despite comprehensive studies regarding selected species of hedge trees, the real application outlines were reported to be still missing for those barriers. Our study verified the mitigation potential of thuja in field tests for (i) several distances behind the hedge and for (ii) several positions along the hedge wall. The explosives of 5 kg trinitrotoluene with a rectangular shape were used in four detonations. Six pressure pencil gauges were registering the overpressure histories. A high-speed camera was recording the in-plane deformation of the hedge wall, the motion of selected points on the height of the wall was plotted. For each position, the reduction of overpressure peak and overpressure impulse were obtained in reference to their counterparts for the position without a hedge. The maximal overpressure peak reductions obtained were 14% for case (i) (differing distances from the explosive) and 22% for case (ii) (differing positions along the hedge wall). The experiments' outcomes showed the safest position behind the thuja wall and the actual benefit from using them in the public application if the terrorist acts would happen.

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Blast Test and Failure Mechanisms of Soft-Core Sandwich Panels for Storage Halls Applications

Cited by 17 publications

References 37 publications

Modern Trends in Research on Steel, Aluminium and Composite Structures

Modern Trends in Research on Steel, Aluminium and Composite Structures

In-Plane Impact Response of Graded Foam Concrete-Filled Auxetic Honeycombs

Application verification of blast mitigation through the use of thuja hedges

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