Rapid evaluation of buildings and infrastructure to accidental and deliberate aircraft impact
| Autor: | John Mould, David K. Vaughan, Howard Levine, Darren Tennant |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Engineering business.industry Mechanical Engineering World trade center ComputerApplications_COMPUTERSINOTHERSYSTEMS Nuclear power Reinforced concrete General aviation Nuclear Energy and Engineering Steel frame Impact loading Forensic engineering Extensive data General Materials Science Safety Risk Reliability and Quality business Waste Management and Disposal Vulnerability (computing) |
| Zdroj: | Nuclear Engineering and Design. 269:142-148 |
| ISSN: | 0029-5493 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2013.08.020 |
| Popis: | Recent events involving the impact of large transport aircraft such as the Boeing 767 and 757 into the World Trade Center Towers and the Pentagon have revealed the vulnerability of such structures to terrorist attack. Incidents involving smaller general aviation aircraft have shown the damage that this class of plane can do beyond a protected perimeter. These incidents have elicited inquiries with regard to the effects of impacts of these aircraft types into other critical facilities including aboveground and below ground storage facilities, nuclear power plants, damns and other military and civilian installations. A significant capability to evaluate these threats has been developed during the past 10 years. Small medium and large aircraft have been impacted into buried and aboveground reinforced concrete and light steel frame storage facilities. Both explicit aircraft models and Riera functions (a simplified aircraft impact loading function) have been used to generate an extensive data base. The effects of engines impacting have been studied separately as penetrators. Illustrated in this paper is validation of computational tools for impacts into structures and the initial development of a generalized evaluation tool for rapid evaluation of threats and consequence of aircraft impact into protected facilities. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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