Effectiveness of Sustainable Design for Blast-Resistant Concrete Structures
Publication: Structures Congress 2023
ABSTRACT
Blast hardened buildings typically employ higher quantities of standard building materials than their conventionally designed counterparts to meet protective design requirements. Regarding the recent push for net-zero structures, it is important to explore the use of low-carbon materials in building design and other measures to mitigate embodied carbon in structures while maintaining a hardened blast envelope. A case study of a local, reinforced concrete building project with no existing protective design or sustainability requirements was redesigned to determine if it is possible to offset the additional embodied carbon from blast design for a more sustainable outcome. After blast hardening was applied to the building and the additional embodied carbon quantified, the standard concrete mix was converted to a low-carbon mix with the same strength, and it was found that the total embodied carbon in the project was reduced below that of the original, unhardened building.
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Published online: May 1, 2023
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Blasting effects
- Building design
- Building materials
- Business management
- Concrete
- Concrete structures
- Construction materials
- Continuum mechanics
- Design (by type)
- Dynamics (solid mechanics)
- Engineering fundamentals
- Engineering materials (by type)
- Engineering mechanics
- Materials engineering
- Practice and Profession
- Solid mechanics
- Structural dynamics
- Structural engineering
- Structures (by type)
- Sustainable development
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