Effect of Vehicle Impact on Reinforced Concrete Structures

Abstract

From the past few decades, cities have seen exponential growth both in population and infrastructure, the same has resulted in an increase of vehicular traffic and their speeds. At certain locations due to unavoidable reasons, (religion, historical, cultural importance, political influence, temporary); few structures are seen abruptly on the roads causing structural vehicular collisions. Accurate vulnerability assessments are crucial in the design process due to the possible catastrophic nature of the failures that can occur. Different heights and sizes of vehicles can collide with structures, which is considered for this study. Impact loads applied to the structure are calculated based on the formulation derived in past literature. Finite element based software SAP2000 is used to build numerical models for both static and dynamic linear analysis. The study concludes impacts to external columns are more disastrous compared to internal column impact due to parking vehicles.