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Dynamic Failure of Composite and Sandwich Structures

  • Discusses a wide range of topics dealing with explosions and impact in marine, aerospace and transportation applications
  • Presents comprehensive assessments of the literature and new developments
  • Contains many new subjects that have not yet appeared in book form
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Solid Mechanics and Its Applications (SMIA, volume 192)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Hydroelastic Impacts of Deformable Wedges

    • Riccardo Panciroli
    Pages 1-45
  3. Blast Loading of Sandwich Structures and Composite Tubes

    • H. Arora, P. A. Hooper, J. P. Dear
    Pages 47-92
  4. Compressively Pre-stressed Navy Relevant Laminated and Sandwich Composites Subjected to Ballistic Impact

    • Eric Kerr-Anderson, Selvum Pillay, Basir Shafiq, Uday K. Vaidya
    Pages 151-176
  5. Development of a Test to Simulate Wave Impact on Composite Sandwich Marine Structures

    • Peter Davies, Benoît Bigourdan, Dominique Choqueuse, Nicolas Lacotte, Bertrand Forest
    Pages 177-208
  6. Perforation of Composite Laminate Subjected to Dynamic Loads

    • Shirley Kalamis García-Castillo, Sonia Sánchez-Sáez, Carlos Santiuste, Carlos Navarro, Enrique Barbero
    Pages 291-337
  7. Discrete Impact Modeling of Inter- and Intra-laminar Failure in Composites

    • Christophe Bouvet, Natthawat Hongkarnjanakul, Samuel Rivallant, Jean-Jacques Barrau
    Pages 339-392
  8. High Velocity Hail Impact on Composite Laminates – Modelling and Testing

    • Robin Olsson, Rickard Juntikka, Leif E. Asp
    Pages 393-426
  9. Discrete Modeling of the Crushing of Nomex Honeycomb Core and Application to Impact and Post-impact Behavior of Sandwich Structures

    • Bruno Castanié, Yulfian Aminanda, Jean-Jacques Barrau, Pascal Thevenet
    Pages 427-489
  10. Experimental and Numerical Study of Normal and Oblique Impacts on Helicopter Blades

    • J. Aubry, P. Navarro, I. Tawk, S. Marguet, J. F. Ferrero, S. Lemaire et al.
    Pages 545-575

About this book

This book presents a broad view of the current state of the art regarding the dynamic response of composite and sandwich structures subjected to impacts and explosions. Each chapter combines a thorough assessment of the literature with original contributions made by the authors. 
The first section deals with fluid-structure interactions in marine structures.  The first chapter focuses on hull slamming and particularly cases in which the deformation of the structure affects the motion of the fluid during the water entry of flexible hulls. Chapter 2 presents an extensive series of tests underwater and in the air to determine the effects of explosions on composite and sandwich structures.  Full-scale structures were subjected to significant explosive charges, and such results are extremely rare in the open literature.  Chapter 3 describes a simple geometrical theory of diffraction for describing the interaction of an underwater blast wave with submerged structures.
The second section addresses the problem of impact on laminated composite structures with chapters devoted to ballistic impacts on pre-stressed composite structures, tests developed to simulate dynamic failure in marine structures, damage mechanisms and energy absorption in low velocity impacts, perforation, the numerical simulation of intra and inter-ply damage during impact, and hail impact on laminated composites.
Sandwich structures with laminated facings are considered in Section 3 with chapters dealing with the discrete modeling of honeycomb core during the indentation of sandwich structures, the behavior of fold core sandwich structures during impact, and impact on helicopter blades. The fourth section consists of two chapters presenting experimental results and numerical simulation of composite structures subjected to crash.

This volume is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and engineers interested andinvolved in analysis and design of composite structures. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Mechanical Engineering and, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA

    Serge Abrate

  • INSA Toulouse, Institut Clément Ader, Toulouse Cedex 4, France

    Bruno Castanié

  • Program Manager, Solid Mechanics, One Liberty Center (Suite 1425), Office of Naval Research (ONR 332), Arlington, USA

    Yapa D. S. Rajapakse

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Dynamic Failure of Composite and Sandwich Structures

  • Editors: Serge Abrate, Bruno Castanié, Yapa D. S. Rajapakse

  • Series Title: Solid Mechanics and Its Applications

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5329-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5328-0Published: 02 November 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7951-7Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5329-7Published: 02 November 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0925-0042

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7764

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 643

  • Topics: Solid Mechanics, Ceramics, Glass, Composites, Natural Materials, Classical Mechanics

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Softcover Book USD 219.99
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