Anti-blast and-impact performances of auxetic structures: A review of structures, materials, methods, and fabrications

RP Bohara, S Linforth, T Nguyen, A Ghazlan… - Engineering Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
Auxetics are a class of structural metamaterials with a negative Poisson's ratio. In
comparison to conventional structures, auxetic structures are proven to exhibit several …

Structural response of modular buildings–an overview

AW Lacey, W Chen, H Hao, K Bi - Journal of building engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Prefabrication by off-site manufacturing leads to a reduced overall construction schedule,
improved quality, and reduced resource wastage. Modular building is therefore increasingly …

A modified firefly algorithm-artificial neural network expert system for predicting compressive and tensile strength of high-performance concrete

DK Bui, T Nguyen, JS Chou, H Nguyen-Xuan… - … and Building Materials, 2018 - Elsevier
The compressive and tensile strength of high-performance concrete (HPC) is a highly
nonlinear function of its constituents. The significance of expert frameworks for predicting the …

Study on blast resistance of a composite sandwich panel with isotropic foam core with negative Poisson's ratio

W Lv, D Li, L Dong - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, a sandwich panel composed of two metal face sheets and a three-dimensional
(3D) isotropic foam core with negative Poisson's ratio (NPR) was established via FEM. The …

Predicting blast-induced air overpressure: a robust artificial intelligence system based on artificial neural networks and random forest

H Nguyen, XN Bui - Natural Resources Research, 2019 - Springer
Blasting is the most popular method for rock fragmentation in open-pit mines. However, the
side effects caused by blasting operations include ground vibration, air overpressure (AOp) …

[HTML][HTML] Bimaterial 3D printing and numerical analysis of bio-inspired composite structures under in-plane and transverse loadings

P Tran, TD Ngo, A Ghazlan, D Hui - Composites Part B: Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
This work presents a novel design, additive manufacturing and modeling approach of three
dimensional voronoi-based composite structures that closely mimic nacre's multilayer …

A comparative study of artificial neural networks in predicting blast-induced air-blast overpressure at Deo Nai open-pit coal mine, Vietnam

H Nguyen, XN Bui, HB Bui, NL Mai - Neural Computing and Applications, 2020 - Springer
Air-blast overpressure (AOp) is one of the undesirable effects caused by blasting operations
in open-pit mines. This side effect of blasting can seriously undermine surrounding …

Development of materials and structures for shielding applications against Blast and Ballistic impact: A Detailed Review

A Pai, CR Kini, S Shenoy - Thin-Walled Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
The development of armaments has brought forth the challenges of protection systems from
gunfire and the like, while the advances in high energy explosives and availability, run the …

Response of ultra-high-performance fiber-reinforced concrete beams with continuous steel reinforcement subjected to low-velocity impact loading

DY Yoo, N Banthia, SW Kim, YS Yoon - Composite Structures, 2015 - Elsevier
To investigate the effect of the reinforcement ratio on the flexural behavior of ultra-high-
performance fiber-reinforced concrete (UHPFRC) beams under impact loading, a total of …

Blast-resistant characteristics of ultra-high strength concrete and reactive powder concrete

NH Yi, JHJ Kim, TS Han, YG Cho, JH Lee - Construction and Building …, 2012 - Elsevier
Recent advances in nanotechnology research have been applied to improve the durability,
serviceability, and safety of ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC). Furthermore …