Numerical Analysis of Nuclear Facility Reinforced Concrete Wall and Roof Slab Behavior Under Close-in Explosions

With the change of anti-terrorism situation, civil unmanned aerial vehicles carrying small equivalent of explosives may cause damage to the reinforced concrete wall or roof of nuclear facilities at close range. Existing research has mostly focused on the overall damage caused by large equivalent explosives at medium and long distances. In this paper, the air overpressure peak curve and behavior of reinforced concrete slabs under small equivalent TNT close-in explosion conditions are calculated by numerical simulation methods and compared with empirical formulas and experimental results in the literature to verify. Furthermore, the numerical simulation method was used to evaluate the resistance of 300mm thick reinforced concrete slabs to close-in impacts of different mass TNT at a standoff distance of 0.4m.