
Explosion Blast Response of Composites
Description
Key Features
- Focuses on key aspects, including both modeling, analysis, and experimental work
- Written by leading international experts from academia, defense agencies, and other organizations
- Timely book due to the extensive use of composites in areas where explosive blasts are an ever-present threat in military applications
Readership
Designers and manufacturing industry of composites for aircraft, rail carriages, ships, buildings, bridges, and body armour, armoured vehicles; Researchers in composite materials, composite structures, energy absorbing systems, dynamic and high strain rate, safety and reliability; Homeland security and military and defence agencies
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction to explosive blast loading of composites
2. Physics of air, underwater and fragmentation blast loading of structures
3. Blast impact survivability - A life of deforming, fracturing and fragmenting
4. Blast loading of fibre reinforced composite structures
5. Response of glass fibre reinforced polymer laminates and sandwich structures to explosive blast loading in air
6. The dynamic behaviour of composite panels subjected to air blast loading: Experiment and theory
7. Effect of explosive blast loading on the microstructure of polymer composites and sandwich structures
8. Computational methods to predict the non-linear dynamic response of blast loaded laminated composite plates
9. Computational modeling of damage in heterogeneous materials at micro/meso length scales under shock loading
10. Explosive blast response of composites following seawater immersion
11. Comparative assessment of the explosive blast response of composite and metals used on naval ships
12. Design and modelling of bio-inspired lightweight composite panels for blast and impact resistance
13. Air and underwater blast performance of composite materials
14. Observations and modelling of the response of composite plates to underwater blast
15. Shock initiated damage and instabilities in underwater structures
16. Analytical and computational modelling of the response of composite plates to underwater blast
17. Experimental techniques and testing of lightweight naval structures against primary weapons effects
18. High strain rate and blast response of syntactic foam cores and sandwich composites
19. Study of hydrodynamic ram effect on composite structures
20. Blast mitigation of defence structures using protective water containers
Product details
- No. of pages: 432
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Woodhead Publishing 2017
- Published: May 22, 2017
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780081020920
- eBook ISBN: 9780081020937
About the Editors
Adrian Mouritz
Affiliations and Expertise
Yapa Rajapakse
Affiliations and Expertise
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