Structures Under Shock and Impact X

Working from new theoretical, numerical and experimental studies, the contributors of these papers also take into consideration the dynamic properties of materials. Taken from those presented at the May 2008 conference, these papers address impact and blast loading characteristics (including the high velocity impact of a composite sandwich panel and impact compression and tensile testing with a Charpy pendulum), protection of structures from blast loads (including blast-resistant highway bridges), energy absorption (including an analysis of foams in hurling helmets), structural crash worthiness (including concrete columns under vehicle impact), hazard mitigation and assessment (including responses of laminated arches to impact loads), behavior of steel structures. Behavior of structural concrete, material response to high rate loading, seismic engineering considerations and interactions between computational and experimental results. The US office of WIT Press is Computational Mechanics. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)