TNO-PML developments of blast resistant doors and walls
conference paper
This paper will address the ongoing developments on blast resistant light or moderate weight steel structures at the Prins Maurits Laboratory of the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO-PML) for the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN) and other parties. Five structural products will be elaborated for two loading levels. Two blast resistant doors and three blast resistant bulkhead concepts have been developed and all concepts have been validated by full scale experiments. The development of a blast resistant WT-door for conventional bulkheads, the membrane door for high blast loading, the blast & ballistic resistant PriMa Double Bulkhead, a new single plate optimised bulkhead and the patented add-on Curvature Limiter for existing walls will be dealt with. Both door designs and the double bulkhead design will be implemented in the new RNLN Air Defence Command Frigate (LCF) and the other bulkhead concept will be implemented in other naval structures. The following aspects will be shortly mentioned: the design principles, the interaction of fragments and structural response, the experimental validation and the implementation. Experiments on mitigating the explosion pressure by means of water spray will be briefly examined as well.
TNO Identifier
443135
Article nr.
Paper 37
Source title
Combat Survivability of Air, Sea and Land Vehicles. Proceedings of the RTO Applied Vehicle Technology Panel (AVT) Symposium AVT-087/RSY-012, Aalborg, Denmark, 23-26 September 2002
Collation
32 p.
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