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Bannett, Terry Xia, Ye School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering 2017 http://hdl.handle.net/2440/119190 With the increasing threat of explosions on infrastructures across the world, the protective techniques against blast loading on existing structures have become more and more significant. As an energy absorptive material, aluminium foam has been introduced to be a sacrificial cladding on structures. This thesis aims to discover the protective effect of aluminium foam on reinforced concrete (RC) structural members which has been a common structural type for existing buildings. Homogeneous aluminium foam was firstly studied both numerically and theoretically. Based on the investigations of homogeneous foam, graded density aluminium foam was introduced to improve the protective effectiveness and efficiency. Blast experiment and analytical model were involved in the study of graded density aluminium foam on RC slabs. Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, 2017 en Aluminium foam optimisation blast load graded density Cladding Protection of Reinforced Concrete Structural Members against Blast Loading Thesis This electronic version is made publicly available by the University of Adelaide in accordance with its open access policy for student theses. Copyright in this thesis remains with the author. This thesis may incorporate third party material which has been used by the author pursuant to Fair Dealing exceptions. If you are the owner of any included third party copyright material you wish to be removed from this electronic version, please complete the take down form located at: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/legalsopen.access