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Dynamic Failure of Materials and Structures

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Dynamic Characterization of Soft Materials

    • Weinong W. Chen, Bo Song
    Pages 1-28
  3. Dynamic Shear Failure of Materials

    • D. Rittel
    Pages 29-61
  4. Dynamic Response of Glass-Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites Under Shock Wave Loading

    • Fuping Yuan, Liren Tsai, Vikas Prakash, Dattatraya P. Dandekar, A. M. Rajendran
    Pages 63-106
  5. Transverse Response of Unidirectional Composites Under a Wide Range of Confinements and Strain Rates

    • Theresa H. Kidd, Murat Vural, Guruswami Ravichandran
    Pages 131-152
  6. Shock Loading and Failure of Fluid-filled Tubular Structures

    • Joseph E. Shepherd, Kazuaki Inaba
    Pages 153-190
  7. Failure of Polymer-Based Sandwich Composites Under Shock Loading

    • Srinivasan Arjun Tekalur, Arun Shukla
    Pages 235-268
  8. Fiber–Metal Laminate Panels Subjected to Blast Loading

    • G. S. Langdon, G. N. Nurick, D. Karagiozova, W. J. Cantwell
    Pages 269-296
  9. Sandwich Panels Subjected to Blast Loading

    • S. Chung Kim Yuen, G. N. Nurick, M. D. Theobald, G. S. Langdon
    Pages 297-325
  10. Advances in Cohesive Zone Modeling of Dynamic Fracture

    • Andrew Seagraves, Raúl Radovitzky
    Pages 349-405
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 407-408

About this book

Dynamic Failure of Materials and Structures discusses the topic of dynamic loadings and their effect on material and structural failure. Since dynamic loading problems are very difficult as compared to their static counterpart, very little information is currently available about dynamic behavior of materials and structures. Topics covered include the response of both metallic as well as polymeric composite materials to blast loading and shock loadings, impact loadings and failure of novel materials under more controlled dynamic loads. These include response of soft materials that are important in practical use but have very limited information available on their dynamic response. Dynamic fragmentation, which has re-emerged in recent years has also been included. Both experimental as well as numerical aspects of material and structural response to dynamic loads are discussed.

Written by several key experts in the field, Dynamic Failure of Materials and Structures will appeal to graduate students and researchers studying dynamic loadings within mechanical and civil engineering, as well as in physics and materials science.

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“This book is written for graduate students and researchers who are studying dynamic loading with applications in civil and defence structures. … This book provides a detailed view of experimental techniques and results of composite structures under dynamic loadings. Overall, it is a good book on structural damage behaviour under dynamic loadings.” (Ran Zhou, International Journal of Acoustics and Vibration, Vol. 19 (1), 2014)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. Mechanical Engineering &, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, U.S.A.

    Arun Shukla

  • Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, U.S.A.

    Guruswami Ravichandran

  • Solid Mechanics Div., Office of Naval Research, Arlington, U.S.A.

    Yapa D.S. Rajapakse

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