27th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 19 - 24 September 2010, Nice, France
Paper ICAS 2010-9.6.4

EXPERIMENTAL TESTING AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION TO DESIGN AN INNOVATIVE BLAST RESISTANT TEXTILE LUGGAGE CONTAINER

R. Dotoli, A. Bozzolo*, S. Fay**, D. Bardaro
Consorzio Cetma, Italy; *D'Appolonia S.p.A., Italy; **Blastech Ltd, UK

Keywords: blast resistant, textile, luggage container

The paper presents the results of the blast tests carried out for the characterisation of the materials used for an innovative blastworthy luggage container. Numerical simulations are carried out to perform sensitivity studies and to analyse the variability in test parameters, such as bomb placement and explosive charge performance.

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