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<doi>/ISEC.res.2018.73</doi>
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<article-title>BEHAVIOR OF REINFORCED CONCRETE SLABS<br/>
UNDER ACCIDENTAL IMPACTS
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<author>SHAMSOON FAREED</author>

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Dept of Civil Engineering, NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan
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<title>ABSTRACT</title>
<p>Loads resulting from activities such as rock fall, heavy drop weights (for e.g.
equipment's, heavy machines during installation), missile and aircraft interaction with
slabs may results in loading intensity which have higher magnitude as compared to
static loading. Based on the velocity of the impacting object at the time of contact,
these activities may result in impact loading. Therefore, slabs designed should provide
resistance to these accidental loading during their entire operational life. In this study,
a dynamic non-linear finite element analyses were conducted to investigate the
behavior of the reinforced concrete slabs subjected to high-mass low-velocity impacts.
For this purpose, initially an already published impact test results were used to validate
the numerical predictions. Following validation, a study was conducted to investigate
the influence of the impact velocity on the behavior of the reinforced concrete slab.
Based on the numerical investigation, it was found that the velocity of the impacting
object has a significant influence on the behavior exhibited by slab under impact
loading. Furthermore, it was also found that the behavior of slab under impact is both
local and global. Local behavior is associated with the damage caused at the contact
area of the slab and the impactor, whereas global behavior refers to the overall
deformation of the slab when stress waves move away from the impact zone and travel
towards the supports. </p>
<p><italic>Keywords: </italic>Dynamic analysis, Finite element, Non-linear analysis, Loading rates. </p>
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