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1 Blast loading of the Aircraft vehicles

1.1 Introduction
1.2 Basic concepts
1.3 Fluid Structure interaction of the individual blast loading
1.4 Fluid Structure interaction in Sequential blast loading
1.5 Elastic behaviour of the aircraft fuselage/ cylindrical shells due to internal blasts
1.6 Plastic behaviour of the isotropic cylindrical shells due to internal blasts
1.7 Final remarks
Problems

Abstract
Pulse pressure loads generated from the high explosive detonations can pose catastrophic damage
to aircraft vehicles. The source of the blast may be external, such as the cases of missile attack or
detonation at vicinity of the structure or internal, i.e. due to terrorist attacks which generates
extensive loading in the confined space.
The actual blast phenomenon is complex which involves the Multiphysics of the Fluid Structure
interaction. For example, due to the imbalance of the pressure distribution near the target
boundaries, diffraction of the blast wave occurs (clearing). In the event of sequential blasts,
pressure distribution is influenced by the relative positions of the blast sources from each other
and from the target.
This chapter examines the parameters influencing the dynamic response of the plate and shell
elements used in aircraft vehicles driven by the fluid structure interaction of high explosive
detonations.
The dissemination of the chapter is as follows.
Section § 1.2 describes the basic concepts and the physics of the blast loading phenomenon.
Following a description of the globalised and localised blast loading phenomena, the spatial and
temporal components of the loading is studied in both cases of globalised and localised blasts. A
number of dimensionless parameters are introduced which aid to distinguish the two scenarios.
Section §1.3 examines the phenomenon of the fluid structure interaction which governs the
response of the structural elements used in aerospace engineering. Mathematical and
numerical models characterising the impulse and pressure imparted are reviewed for plate and
shell elements.
Section §1.4 examines the physics of the fluid structure interaction in the circumstances of
sequential blasts.
In Section §1.5 an analytical model is proposed to estimate the transient dynamic behaviour of
an elastic plate, which is loaded locally, with the influence of finite displacements is retained in
the analysis.
Section §1.6 examines an analytical model to estimate the dynamic response of a locally loaded,
perfectly plastic plate where finite displacements is retained in the analysis.