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Pressure-impulse diagram method:a fundamental review
Accidental and deliberate explosions stemming from catastrophic events in the petroleum industry, incidents during complex manufacturing processes, mishandling or failure of domestic gas appliances or installations, terrorist attacks and military engagements, are becoming increasingly relevant in structural design. Pressureāimpulse (PāI) diagrams are widely used for the preliminarily assessment and design of structures subjected to such extreme loading conditions. A typical PāI diagram provides information concerning the level of damage sustained by a specific structural member when subjected to a blast load. This paper presents a stateāofātheāart review describing the development of the PāI diagram method over the last 70 years, the main assumptions upon which its development is based and the framework through which such the method is applied in practice. The structural analysis methods used for the derivation of PāI curves are discussed and the existing approaches are categorised according to algorithms used. A review of the PāI curve formulae proposed to date is performed, where the formulae are classified according to the formulation methods