Book Description

Topics discussed at this symposium include the following: (1) Ship impacts: bow collisions; (2) New design-analysis techniques for blast loaded stiffened box and cylindrical shell structures; (3) Maximum strength of square thin-walled sections subjected to combined loading of torsion and bending; (4) Damage assessment of cylinders due to impact and explosive loading; (5) The crash response of circular tubes under general applied loading; (6) Dynamic response and failure of fully clamped circular plates under impulsive loading; (7) Deformation and rupture of blast loaded square plates-predictions and experiments; (8) Dynamic energy absorption characteristics of sandwich shells; (9) Residual tensile strength of ballistically damaged aluminum-based laminates; (10) High-speed impact response of particulate metal matrix composite materials- an experimental and theoretical investigation; (11) Dynamic response of the Space Station Freedom due to a module perforation by a hypervelocity impact; (12) The measurement of Mode I dynamic shear crack resistance in 50D structural steel using Double Cantilever Beam specimens; and (13) Ship-ramming after 1859.