Database of "Experimental and Numerical Investigations of a Scaled-Down Steel Frame Building subjected to Shock Tube-Induced Blast Pressure"

Background: This database contains some data used during the study on a scaled-down steel frame building subjected to shock tube-induced blast pressure (experimental and numerical investigations). The files included in the database are outlined below and briefly described: 1.Shock tube experiments.pdf gives a brief detail of shock tube experiments from literature, conducted on full-scale/scaled-down construction elements, namely beams, columns, and slabs. They are summarised in Table S1, which supports Fig. 2(a-c) presented in the manuscript (Section: Introduction). 2.JC model.pdf outlines the underlying equations of the Johnson-Cook (JC) constitutive model used to represent the material behaviour in the finite element analysis (Section: Numerical modelling). 3.Geometric similarity law.pdf discusses the principles of geometric similarity used in the study. Table S2 discusses how different variables are scaled. The effects of neglecting strain-rate sensitivity and thermal softening in the Johnson-Cook constitutive model are also addressed. 4.Comparison to field blast.pdf provides a comparison of the blast parameters between the shock tube experiment and those derived using the Kingery Bulmash (KB) charts. 5.Accelerometer.pdf contains Fig. S1 which is the acceleration-time history and the MATLAB code used for deriving the displacement-time history from the accelerometer. 6.High speed camera.pdf contains the MATLAB code used for deriving the displacement-time history from the high-speed camera.