Effect of Blasts on Underground Tunnels- An Overview | ||||
| The Egyptian International Journal of Engineering Sciences and Technology | ||||
| Article 12, Volume 37, Issue 1, March 2022, Page 7-16 PDF (507.1 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/eijest.2021.83181.1076 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
Alaa Ata1; Mahmoud Tolba2; Marwa Nabil Amin3; Sally El-sayed Abd El-Mageed Hassan   3
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| 1University of Hertfordshire-Hosted by GAF, School of Engineering and Computer Science, Egypt | ||||
| 2Structural Engineering Dept. Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University | ||||
| 3Structural Department, Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University, Egypt | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Terrorist actions and defacements have become one of the widest threaten for humans and structures. Underground tunnels can be used as shelters against blast actions, so it is very important to study their behavior under blast loads. The safety of these tunnels is lean because of the lack of suitable ways to discover these events early. Techniques are essential to quantify the resistance of underground structures against blasts as a protection and to calculate the risks causing by the failure of their elements. The appropriate advanced methods could be experimental, numerical, or a mixture of both. The experimental work is limited because of the cost and complication, and so numerical analysis is suitable for blast study in addition to available experimental tests. Ways should be suggested to protect shallow and deep tunnels against the surface and internal blast loads. Studies should use numerical simulation of a tunnel buried in a saturated soil profile to imitate real-world conditions. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| blast loads; underground tunnels; soil dynamic; numerical analysis | ||||
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