Abstract

Adopting locally available raw materials like seawater and sea-sand in coastal areas and oceanic islands has facilitated meeting the demands of marine engineering. However, these raw materials contain corrosive elements that could threaten the steel reinforcement in concrete structures, thus non-corrosive fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) bars are proposed. In the present study, the geopolymer-based seawater sea-sand high performance concrete (G-SHPC) slab reinforced with basalt FRP bars was designed to preliminarily evaluate its dynamic behaviour under contact explosions. Tests were conducted on three large-sized slabs with different TNT charge weights, including 0.8 kg, 1.6 kg and 2.2 kg. To complement the experimental investigation, a numerical simulation was then performed in ANSYS-DYNA. A Continuous Surface Cap (CSC) model was developed to accommodate the unique characteristics of G-SHPC. Two different blast modelling methods, including the Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) algorithm and a hybrid Finite-Element (FE) and Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) algorithm, were examined to faithfully reproduce the contact explosion phenomena. The structural models considered the bond-slip behaviour, and three bond-slip models were compared. The numerical results obtained through the ALE algorithm and the beam-in-solid bond-slip model exhibited fair agreement with the test results, with a maximum error of less than 6.3%. A parametric study was further conducted to establish the damage identification diagram. Formulas based on empirical data were formulated to anticipate the damage degrees of G-SHPC slabs exposed to contact explosions.

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