M. Langseth, Dept. of Structural Engineering, Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU), NTNU, N-7491 Trondheim, NorwayMagnus Langseth is currently a professor at the Department of Structural Engineering, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
(NTNU). He graduated from the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH) in 1976 and worked for some years as a consulting engineer. In
1983 he went back to NTH where he took his doctorate in 1988 and was appointed professor in 1995. At present he is the Centre Director
of the CRI-SIMLab, Centre for Research-based Innovation for the period 2007-2014 at NTNU. Professor Langseth is a member of the Royal
Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters the Norwegian Academy of Technical Sciences and was awarded the "Médaille Albert
Portevin", Société Francaise de Métallurgie et de Matériaux in 2005. He is on the Editorial Boards of
the International Journal of Mechanics and Materials in Design, journal of Multidiscipline Modeling in Materials and Structures, and
journal of Ships and Offshore Structures.
The present research of Professor Langseth is primarily related to impact and crashworthiness
of aluminium and high-strength steel structures as well as lightweight ballistic protection. Included here is the development of test
facilities for material testing at elevated rates of strain as well as facilities for impact and crashworthiness testing of components
and structures. Focus in his aluminium research is connected to the behaviour and modelling of aluminium extrusions with and without
aluminium foam filler subjected to axial and lateral impact as well as the behaviour and modelling of self pierce rivets. His high-strength
steel research is mainly related to material modelling and robustness studies of energy absorbing components. The light-weight ballistic
protection activity is related to the behaviour and modelling of aluminium and high-strength steel plates subjected to projectile impact
and blast. The methodology used in his research is a coupling between testing in the laboratory, material modelling and analyses as a
basis for recommendations with respect to modelling and design. Special emphasis is placed on the effect the processes has on the structural
behaviour as well as what kind of simplifications that can be made in the modelling and still retain a robust and reliable solution of
practical problems.
N. Jones, Dept. of Mechanical Engin., University of Liverpool, P.O.Box 147, Liverpool, L69 38X, UKProfessor Norman Jones was an Assistant Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at UMIST (1963 - 65), and Assistant Professor of Mechanical
Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (1965 - 66) and in Engineering at Brown University (1966 - 68). He joined the Ocean
Engineering Department at MIT in 1968, and resigned as a full professor in 1979 to take up a Chair in Mechanical Engineering at the University
of Liverpool. He occupies the A A Griffith Professorship of Mechanical Engineering, was Department Head for the period 1982 - 90, and
is Director of the Impact Research Centre at the University of Liverpool. Professor Jones is an Associate Editor of Applied Mechanics
Reviews, and is on the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Mechanical Sciences , DYMAT journal and Acta Mechanica Sinica. He has written the book "Structural Impact," published by the Cambridge University Press in 1989, and
has co-edited five other books on impact and structural crashworthiness.
C. Anderson, Engineering Dynamics Department, Southwest Research Institute, Post office Drawer 28510, San Antonio, TX 78228-0510, USACHARLES E. ANDERSON, JR. is director of the Engineering Dynamics Department of the Mechanical and Materials Engineering Division of Southwest
Research Institute (SwRI). He received his Ph.D. in physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, was at the Army Research Laboratory
for 8 years, and has been at SwRI since 1980. Dr. Anderson is an expert in penetration mechanics, warhead mechanics, and hypervelocity
impact; and is recognized for his technical contributions and leadership in combining numerical simulations with experimental data to
develop advanced models of the response of materials to shock, impact, and penetration. Because of his expertise in these areas, he
has served on various Government advisory committees and assessment boards. Dr. Anderson is a founding board member and the first president
of the Hypervelocity Impact Society, he is a senior institute fellow of the Institute for Advanced Technology, received the Distinguished
Scientist Award in 2000, and was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2005.
S. Hiermaier, Ernst-Mach-Institute, Fraunhofer Institut für Kurzzeitdynamik, Eckerstr. 4, 79104 Freiburg, GermanyStefan Hiermaier is currently deputy director of Ernst-Mach-Institute (EMI) and a professor of High Speed Dynamics at the University of
the German Armed Forces (UniBwM), Munich. He graduated in Aerospace Engineering from UniBwM in 1992. Four years later he earned his doctoral
degree and in 2002 he finished his habilitation at UniBwM in numerical and experimental methods for crash and impact studies. Prof. Hiermaier
is an expert in simulation methods and material characterization for dynamic and shock propagation processes. He focused on the development
of mesh-free methods and their coupling to mesh-based discretization methodologies. Specific emphasis is placed on the integration of
numerical methods in the course of material characterization, e.g. on meso- and micro-mechanical scales. At EMI he pursued a strategy
of integrating experimental and numerical expertise leading to a research department of now more than 50 people. He has written the book
"Structures under Crash and Impact", published by Springer in 2008.
O. Hopperstad, Sim Lab. / Dept. of Structural Engineering, Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU), N-7491 Norway Trondheim, NorwayOdd Sture Hopperstad is professor at the Department of Structural Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Engineering (NTNU)
in Trondheim, Norway. He earned his doctoral degree at the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH) in 1993 and was appointed professor
at NTNU in 1998. He is a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters and the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences.
Prof. Hopperstad's research activities are mainly within modelling of structural materials, nonlinear finite element methods, crashworthiness
and structural impact. Within these fields, Hopperstad has authored/co-authored about 100 articles in international journals with peer
review and the same number of papers at international conferences.
Q. Li, School of Mechanical, Aerospace & Civil Engineering (MACE), University of Manchester, P.O. Box 88, Sackville Street, Manchester, M60 1QD, UKQingming Li is currently a Reader in the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering at the University of Manchester. He graduated
from Peking University with BSc (1984) and MSc (1987) degrees in mechanics and from the University of Liverpool with a PhD (1997) in
mechanical engineering. He has been a Lecturer and Assistant Professor at Taiyuan University of Technology (1987-1994) and Nanyang Technological
University (1999-2002). He joined UMIST (now the University of Manchester) in 2002, and is now the leader of the Impact and Explosion
Research Group at the University of Manchester. Dr Li's expertise is in penetration mechanics, dynamic behaviour of engineering materials
at high strain rates and structural response to impact and blast loads. He has served on international conference committees and chairmanship,
undertaken guest editorships, held guest professorships in several universities and provided consultancies to industries and government
bodies. He is the author of more than 70 peer-reviewed journal publications, mainly in the field of impact engineering.
D. Mohr, Lab. des Solides Irradies, Ecole Polytechnique de France, route de Saclay, 91128 Palaiseau, FranceD. Mohr, Department of Mechanics, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France is currently a CNRS Research Assistant Professor at the Solid
Mechanics Laboratory (LMS) at Ecole Polytechnique and Associate Director of the Impact and Crashworthiness Lab at MIT's Department of
Mechanical Engineering. At the LMS, he is heading the Experimental Dynamics Group. He was educated in Structural and Computational Mechanics
at the University of Karlsruhe (Germany), the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (France) and the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (USA) where he received his PhD in Applied Mechanics in 2003. Over the past ten years, he has spent about 12 months at
the R&D departments of Daimler in Stuttgart and BMW in Munich. Dr. Mohr's research activities include crashworthiness, thermo-mechanical
behavior of materials at high strain rates and the mechanics of constructed cellular materials. An area of particular interest is the
development of advanced experimental techniques for the testing of engineering materials under multi-axial loading conditions.
V. Shim, Dept. of Mechanical and Production Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS), 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, 119260 SingaporeVictor Shim is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). A Singaporean, he pursued his undergraduate
studies from 1973-76 at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, through a Commonwealth scholarship. He then underwent military service
with the Singapore Armed Forces from 1977-80 before starting work as an academic tutor at NUS and concurrently undertaking research for
a Master's degree. He was then awarded a scholarship to pursue a PhD at Cambridge University and returned to NUS in 1986 to assume a
faculty position. He established the Impact Mechanics Laboratory at NUS and his research interests encompass ballistic penetration of
fabric armour, dynamic behaviour of materials, mechanics of cellular structures/materials, stress wave propagation and the response of
components/products to shock and impact. He has spent time at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and UC San Diego as a visiting academic.
He is registered with the Singapore Professional Engineers Board, is a Senior Member of the Institution of Engineers Singapore, and an
ASME member. He has also held various concurrent appointments at NUS; these include being Director of Corporate Relations, Head of External
Relations, a Sub-Dean of the Engineering Faculty and a Deputy Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department. His interactions with local
and overseas industry are in the areas of impact and drop testing, and characterization of material properties for product design and
computational simulation.
T. Yu, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong KongProfessor Tongxi Yu is Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He is
also Associate Vice-President for Research and Development (Mainland Programs) and the Dean of Fok Ying Tung Graduate School at HKUST.
He conducted both undergraduate and post-graduate studies in the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics at Peking University. In 1970's,
he worked as an engineer related to machine-building industry in China. He got his PhD from Cambridge University in 1983, then worked
in Brown University, USA, as a Research Associate. Returning to Beijing in 1984, he became a professor and the Director of the Solid
Mechanics Division at Peking University until 1991, when he joined Cambridge University again supported by the Royal Society Visitor
Fellowship. He then worked as a Reader in UMIST in Manchester, UK. After joining HKUST in 1995 as professor of mechanical engineering,
he was Associate Dean of Engineering in 1998-2000, and the Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2002-2007. Professor Yu's
research interest has been focused on impact dynamics, plasticity, energy absorption, textile and cellular materials, and nano-composites.
In these fields, he has published 3 textbooks, 3 scientific monographs (Dynamic Models for Structural Plasticity, Springer-Verlag,
1993; Plastic Bending: Theory and Applications, World Scientific, 1996; Energy Absorption of Structures and Materials,
Woodhead, 2003), 280 journal papers, 150 international conference papers and 4 patents. He also holds guest professorship in more than
10 Chinese universities and CAS. He is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Impact Engineering, Associate Editor
(PR China) of the International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, and member of the editorial boards of other 10 academic journals.
He is Fellow of ASME, IMechE and HKIE. He was the Chairman of AEPA 2000 (The 5th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Engineering Plasticity and
Applications) held at Hong Kong in 2000, and the President of the Hong Kong Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (HKSTAM) in
2000-2002. Due to his outstanding academic achievement, he was awarded Doctor of Science (ScD) by Cambridge University in 1995, and got
the China Higher Education Science and Technology Award (1st Class) in 2001.
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