FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS AND EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF REINFORCED CONCRETE SINGLE-MAT SLABS SUBJECTED TO BLAST LOADS A THESIS IN Civil Engineering Submitted to the Faculty of the University of Missouri-Kansas City in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE by Akash Ashok Iwalekar Bachelor of Civil Engineering (B.E.) University of Mumbai – G. V. Acharya Institution of Technology University of Missouri-Kansas City 2018