Investigation of post-explosion experimental performance of composite concrete slabs exposed to contact explosion

Terrorist attacks, one of the biggest threats to humanity on a global scale, increase the damage they cause on societies with the developing technology day by day. From the past to the present, the terrorist attacks that have taken place in our country is an important issue that our security forces and then the researchers on the subject have focused on sensitively. Most of the attacks carried out by terrorist organizations are caused by explosives/bombs. Attacks targeting public, military and civilian structures caused many casualties. It is possible to reduce the damage caused by these attacks as much as possible with multidisciplinary studies. In the present thesis, the ways of absorbing the explosion energy formed after the contact explosion at the optimum rate were investigated. For this purpose, apart from the existing method and material properties of reinforced concrete structures, composite concrete slabs were manufactured using geotextile and galvanized wire fence. The performance of the composite concrete slabs produced with these reinforcement materials under the explosive effect has been investigated by numerous field experiments. These studies carried out within the scope of the TÜBİTAK 1001 project numbered 219M392 have shown that composite concrete slabs manufactured with the materials we have mentioned, other than reinforced concrete structures, exhibit a good performance in absorbing explosion energy.