INVESTIGADORES
AMBROSINI Ricardo Daniel
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Determination of the location and mass of explosive in complex urban environment
Autor/es:
DANIEL AMBROSINI; BIBIANA LUCCIONI
Lugar:
Florianópolis, Brasil
Reunión:
Congreso; Impact Loading of Lightweight Structures; 2005
Resumen:
A methodology to determine the location and mass of explosive in terror-
ism attack when the location of the crater is unavailable is presented in
this paper and applied to the case of the AMIA (Israel-Argentina Mutual
Association) building attack occurred in Buenos Aires, Argentina in July
1994. A computational dynamic analysis was carried out over the congested
urban environment that corresponds to the opposite rows of buildings of
a block, in the same street. Many alternatives corresponding to di®erent
locations and explosive mass were simulated and the corresponding distri-
bution of pressures and impulses which were used to evaluate, with the aid
of isodamage curves, the distribution of damage on building facades for the
di®erent alternatives simulated and compare them with the real observed
damage patterns. The methodology allows the determination of the most
probable location of the focus of the explosion as well as the mass of the
explosive used in the attack.