Land and Marine-based Structures subjected to Explosion Loading: A review on Critical Transportation and Infrastructure

Abstract

The risk of accidental loads on various engineering structures is not possibly avoided in each operation, which makes workers, structures, and industries susceptible to remarkable loss once the loads occur. According to its derivative, an explosion is included in the accidental load type. The chain reaction from explosion accidents causes a wide range of economic state and industrial stability, especially during incidents of transportation mode and critical infrastructure. This work is aimed at brief quantification of explosion losses in several high profile accidents, e.g., reservoir site, nuclear power plant and offshore installation, and presentation of research development to estimate safety against explosion loads. A series of main discussions are directed to assess the structural integrity of explosion subjects, which is previously conducted by numerical approach and medium-scale experiment. Initial estimation of the investigation indicates that high-security facility and military vessel are no exception of the explosion casualties, which in the land-based structures, the damage is contributed by an internal error that leads to the main accident while in marine-based structure, external factor, e.g., explosion due to weaponry use plays a major role in structural damage.