Analysis of Blast Loading Effects

Iconic, public and commercial buildings have become a universal target of bomb attacks from terrorists. Those buildings are the lifeline structures and they play an important role in the economy of the country. Hence they have to be protected from blast loading. But most of these buildings have been or are built without consideration for their vulnerability to such events. Hence buildings used by the general public daily must also have satisfactory blast protection. The main objective of this study is to evaluate blast effect on a reinforced concrete (RC) building considering experimentally determined dynamic characteristics. This study involved theoretical calculation of the characteristics of blast according to Unified Facilities Criteria and computer simulations as the linear time history analysis by using the computer code SAP2000 version 15.In this study the experimentally blast explosion has done for the RC column model series to show accuracy of above techniques with actual results.