Response sensitivity of blast-loaded reinforced concrete structures to the number of degrees of freedomThis article is one of a selection of papers published in the Special Issue on Blast Engineering.

Accurate analysis of reinforced concrete (RC) structures under blast loading is very complicated due to the nonlinear behaviour of concrete and reinforcement and the various failure modes to be considered. Although blast loads can excite a large number of modes due to their high frequency content, practical computational tools are usually limited to single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) models. In addition to oversimplification, SDOF models are known …