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Bridges under explosive loads a preliminary linearized approach

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This paper investigates the influence of an explosive load, due to a terrorist action, on the behavior of a long or a suspension bridge, and studies the explosion characteristics and their effect on the bridge. The purpose of this paper is not to investigate the consequences of the loss of structural elements. The main subject is to determine the critical magnitudes of the explosions that a bridge could suffer, to indicate the possible points where the explosives can be placed, the combination of positions and also the simultaneous action or the action with time hysteresis of the explosions. The theoretical formulation is based on a continuum approach which has been used in literature to analyze such long or suspension bridges. The analysis is carried out with the modal superposition method, and the resulting differential equations are solved using the second Duhamel’s integral.

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Michaltsos, G.T., Avraam, T. Bridges under explosive loads a preliminary linearized approach. Arch Appl Mech 92, 2041–2059 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00419-022-02148-8

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