1. Prediction of Near-Field Wave Attenuation Due to a Spherical Blast Source.
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Ahn, Jae-Kwang and Park, Duhee
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ATTENUATION (Physics) , *BLAST waves , *COMPUTER simulation , *THEORY of wave motion , *ACOUSTIC wave propagation , *FINITE element method - Abstract
Empirical and theoretical far-field attenuation relationships, which do not capture the near-field response, are most often used to predict the peak amplitude of blast wave. Jiang et al. (Vibration due to a buried explosive source. PhD Thesis, Curtin University, Western Australian School of Mines, 1993) present rigorous wave equations that simulates the near-field attenuation to a spherical blast source in damped and undamped media. However, the effect of loading frequency and velocity of the media have not yet been investigated. We perform a suite of axisymmetric, dynamic finite difference analyses to simulate the propagation of stress waves induced by spherical blast source and to quantify the near-field attenuation. A broad range of loading frequencies, wave velocities, and damping ratios are used in the simulations. The near-field effect is revealed to be proportional to the rise time of the impulse load and wave velocity. We propose an empirical additive function to the theoretical far-field attenuation curve to predict the near-field range and attenuation. The proposed curve is validated against measurements recorded in a test blast. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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