Wall elements of reinforced concrete in ½ scale, with and without axial loading, were tested with transversal blast loading in an explosive driven shock tube. The residual strength was tested for a quasi-static loading after the performed blast test. The performed experiments with wall elements gave valuable data for the structural behaviour, incl. failure modes, for this type of reinforced concrete structures. The wall elements with an axially applied load showed a decreased deflection when subjected to an air blast loading, compared to wall elements without axial loading. Furthermore, the deformation due to air blast loading for the axially loaded wall elements decreased with increasing axial load. Moreover, the failure mode for wall elements may change from bending to shear failure for an increased blast loading, giving a catastrophic failure without any residual strength remaining for the wall element in either axial or transversal directions. The displacements of the wall elements for the air blast tests vs. the applied impulse density showed a good correlation between the different experiments for increasing impulse density for the wall elements without a shear failure. The axial force increases initially for both the air blast and quasi-static transversal loading of the wall elements. However, the axial force are reduced to below the initial nominal value for large transversal, i.e. horizontal, deformations for the axially loaded wall elements. Numerical methods, e.g. finite element analyses, are therefore the most suitable method for the evaluation of both dynamic, i.e. blast loading, and quasi-static experiments since both axial and transversal forces varies simultaneously. One main area of interest for future research are therefore the evaluation of numerical methodologies to predict the structural behaviour of combined blast loading and axial force on a structural member, e.g. reinforced concrete wall or column. One reason for this is that additional data, either experimental or numerical, are needed in the development of future damage assessment tools for axially loaded concrete walls and columns. Another area for future research are the conditions that results in a change of deformation and failure modes for concrete structures, i.e. from a controlled bending deformation to a catastrophic failure for a reinforced concrete wall. There is also a need for additional future tests in support of this research, i.e. verifying full scale experiments, and tests with other concrete wall specifications or blast loadings.