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Aircraft crash/impact loading on concrete structures

Aircraft crash/impact loading on concrete structures

Aircraft crash/impact loading on concrete structures

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My firm has just been retained to design a small concrete structure that will need to be capable of withstanding an impact from a small aircraft. Is there any information or possible a simplified method to design the concrete elements without getting into a long drawn out finite element analysis?

RE: Aircraft crash/impact loading on concrete structures

I think FEMA or US Artmy has some articles on this.

As a matter of fact - search these forums - it comes up from time to time.

RE: Aircraft crash/impact loading on concrete structures

Homeland Security too.

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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Motivation:  Don't ask

RE: Aircraft crash/impact loading on concrete structures

You don't need FE analysis you can use single degree of freedom system for modelling concrete elements
softwear like SBEDS can do the job

RE: Aircraft crash/impact loading on concrete structures

one issue i think you're going to have is shape and construction, unless someone has analyzed the impact of a kinetic and explosive force on a wall xft thick, made of xyz 'crete and abc lbs of rebar (unless there is a standard wall construction ??).

are you going to test it ?

how are you going to prove it ??

RE: Aircraft crash/impact loading on concrete structures

Your client needs to tell you what constitutes a small aircraft, or pay you to retain a security consultant who can come up with the size acceptable to the client.

You need that information before you can design anything.  

RE: Aircraft crash/impact loading on concrete structures

NRC used to require that containment structures be designed for a 707 crashing into them.  They must have a criteria. I'm sure you could scale down the kinetic energy for a smaller plane.

RE: Aircraft crash/impact loading on concrete structures

CNCLLC,
Don't mean to be pedantic, but I hope your scope is "design the building to avoid complete collapse in the event of an impact of an airplane" or similar. You can simulate this by removing a few columns systematically from your system, how many columns depends on the size/speed/weight of the airplane, which should be supplied by the client.
 

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