Structures Under Crash and Impact

Required reading for those in the relevant areas of work, this book examines the testing and modeling of materials and structures under dynamic loading conditions.

Readers get an in-depth analysis of the current mathematical modeling and simulation tools available for a variety of materials, alongside discussions of the benefits and limitations these tools pose in industrial design.

The models discussed are also available in commercial codes such as LS-DYNA and AOTODYN.

Following a logical and well organized structure, this volume uniquely combines experimental procedures with numerical simulation.

What's more, it does so with reference to a number of new materials, making this volume right up-to-date in its scope.

It features examples based on actual projects and problems in the automotive, aerospace, and defense industries.

Cross references to implemented models in commercial codes will offer useful links to the application side. Specifically the examples given within the LS-DYNA and DYNA-3D are of great value to design engineers in industry and the academic scientist Discusses a combination of experiments and numerical simulation applied to new materials Examples provided based on actual projects and problems in automotive, aerospace and defense industry Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Thermo-Mechanical Basics.- Constitutive Equations.- Shock Waves and Related Equations of State.- Hydrocodes.- Failure Models for Dynamic Loading Conditions.- Aspects of Advanced Dynamic Material Testing.