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Blast Resistance Enhancement with an Integrated Hardening, Damping, and Wave Modulating System Using 1/3 Scale RC Columns
In recent years, issues related to the hardening of transportation structures have been steadily brought to the forefront of the structural engineering community. Due to their proximity to traffic flow and open access to the public, bridge structures are vulnerable to terrorisms’ threats with close-in explosions near the main load-carrying members - columns. Under such loading conditions, how columns behave is currently not well known. Much more is to be learnt to mitigate blast effects.
 
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