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Implementation of MCEER TR 14-0006 Blast Load Curves in LS-DYNA® and Benchmark to Commonly Practiced Blast Loading Application Methods

A tool has been developed to explore implementation of the blast load curves derived by J. Shin, A. Whittaker, A. Aref and D. Cormie in the MCEER Technical Report 14-0006 (2014). The MCEER proposed blast load curves capture the effects of high explosives near the face of the charge, where the traditionally-used Kingery and Bulmash (KB) empirical data is not applicable. Although not a replacement for a proper computational fluid dynamics assessment, designers can use simplified methods such as this tool to provide rough order of magnitude assessments prior to performing more complex and time intensive hydrocode methods.