Impact Loading Of Lightweight Structures

In these 43 articles, all of which were presented at the May 2005 international conference in Brazil, contributors describe their studies of the behavior of lightweight structures subjected to various dynamic loads. In general, topics include material characterization, structural failure and crashworthiness, energy-absorbing systems, experimental techniques, theoretical models, and numerical analysis. Specific topics include a method for scaling impacted structures, determination of the location and mass of an explosive in an urban environment, a study of nanocomposites under impact loading, perforation of a medium thick plate by a sharp projectile, a phase transform Taylor test, triaxial compression of aluminum beams, and a series of three articles on simulation of high-velocity impacts on thin metallic targets. The US office of WIT Press is Computational Mechanics. Annotation c2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)