Design formula of reinforced concrete structures against rigid missile impact

For the design of concrete containment structures built in nuclear power stations in Japan, internal pressure, temperature load and earthquake load have so far been considered as the major types of load that could result from accident. In some foreign countries, impact load caused by collision of missile is taken into consideration for the design of this kind of structures as well. Also in Japan, in the design of the repossessing plants which is now under construction at Shimokita area, air craft crash is taken into account. In this study, in order to establish the design method of concrete structures against impact due to collision of missile, the impact tests have been carried out using hard missile with the velocity from 4.0m/s to 250m/s. Based on these results, we proposed the design method of reinforced concrete structure against the collision of hard missile. (author)