Performance based capacity and demand estimate and fragility analysis of prestressed concrete and reinforced concrete nuclear containment panels subject to missile impact

Abstract

In the modern world the majority of structures mainly made up of concrete due to its inexpensiveness and excellent stability Due to hike in civil engineering structures globally over the years natural and human made offensive events increased eventually on these structures Projectile impacts are one of them and seen in the case of the 9 11 attacks World war 8220 II Persian 8220 Gulf war etc These attacks greatly affected in the failure of structures economic decline nations nobility los...