REVIEW PAPER ON BLAST LOADING AND BLAST RESISTANT STRUCTURES

The objective of this paper is to review the works on effects of blast loading on structures that as already been done till now. Due to the recent increase in various terrorist activities all over the world, the safety of the structures should be designed to resist bomb blasts. However, these designs could be and will be economically inefficient, but they can be used for designing commercial office buildings, shopping malls, government buildings and even 5-star hotels. Blast loads are basically dynamic loads of a type that needs to be attentively calculated like wind and seismic loads and the structures should be designed by considering them to make it blast resistant. But this philosophy will cause the cost of construction to increase by a big amount. So, special care must be taken if the structure is located in a sensitive place where bombarding, explosions or war are the chiefs. Also, if it is located in the region of the high-intensity earthquake. The objectives of this study are to elucidate on blast resistant building design theories, the improvement of building security against the effects of explosives in the process of structural design and the techniques in design that should be carried out. The paper also includes information about explosives, blast loading parameters and enhancements of blast resistant building design