Field testing of newly Blast resistant lightweight sandwich panel

The proposed project is to field test a full scale novel lightweight sandwich panel which consists of steel plate at the front, concrete panel at the back and number of helical springs in the middle. This newly proposed sandwich panel will be subjected to repetitive different ranges of blast load to ensure its blast resistant capacity and evaluate its ability to withstand repetitive blast loads. The idea of using this sandwich panel is to almost dissipate all the applied blast energy by the front steel plate and the helical springs layer which accordingly, prevents the damage of the back RC panel which is considered as the main structure. The construction of this lightweight sandwich panel is not costly, not time consuming and will reduce the additional loads which added by using traditional protection layers. TO BE CONT’D

Faculty Supervisor:

Tony Yang

Student:

Partner:

Tongji University

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing and Construction; Advanced Manufacturing

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program: