Computer automation for structural design of domestic nuclear shelters

Abstract EN

The structural design of nuclear shelters is different according to the types of these shelters (domestic or public – aboveground or underground – shallow buried or deeply buried – reinforced concrete or glass reinforced plastic or thin metal sheets… etc.).

UK and USA performed a calculation using a manual method to calculate the structural design for any domestic nuclear shelter, which may protect the people in it from air blast, thermal and nuclear radiation (gamma rays emanating from fall-out).

The manual calculation method is very complex which is very difficult to use, in the present work, a simplified method is prepared, this involves a visual basic computer program to calculate the structural designs for the different domestic nuclear shelters.

The program aims to provide the missing time in the calculation processes to calculate the structural design for any domestic shelter through entering specifications data for any domestic shelter.

The program will calculate the structural design in a very short time which will save the effort and time in comparison with the manual calculation.

Also, the computer program gives more accurate results than the manual method