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Empirical evaluations for predicting the damage of FRC wall subjected to close-in explosions
Authors: Duc-Kien Thai, Thai-Hoan Pham , Duy-Liem Nguyen, Tran Minh Tu and Phan Van Tien
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Steel and Composite Structures
: 49(1)     : 65-79
Publishing year: 10/2023
This paper presents a development of empirical evaluations, which can be used to evaluate the damage of fiber-reinforced concrete composites (FRC) wall subjected to close-in blast loads. For this development, a combined application of numerical simulation and machine learning approaches are employed. First, finite element modeling of FRC wall under blast loading is developed and verified using experimental data. Numerical analyses are then carried out to investigate the dynamic behavior of the FRC wall under blast loading. In addition, a data set of 384 samples on the damage of FRC wall due to blast loads is then produced in order to develop machine learning models. Second, three robust machine learning models of Random Forest (RF), Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) are employed to propose empirical evaluations for predicting the damage of FRC wall. The proposed empirical evaluations are very useful for practical evaluation and design of FRC wall subjected to blast loads.
close-in explosion; empirical evaluation; fiber reinforced concrete; LS-DYNA; wall