Structures Under Shock and Impact: XII

Contents Section 1: Impact and blast loading Impact loading of square plates with piece wise constant thickness; Plastic behaviour of stepped conical shells under impact loading; Nonlinear structural consequences of plates with apertures under pulse pressure loads: an experimental and numerical study; The regular and Mach reflection of shock wave from explosion in real air; Dynamic response of a detonation vessel; Simple models for penetration of thick targets by rigid projectiles; Validation of FE models of bullet impact on high strength steel armors; Modelling blast loads in rail vehicles Section 2: Energy absorbing issues Failure and energy absorption of plastic and composite chiral honeycombs; System identification of smart structures under high impact loads; Experimental measure of impact in temporary handrails Section 3: Interaction between computational and experimental results High explosive thermodynamic equations of state for combined fragmentation and blast loading; Plate-impact loading of cellular structures formed by selective laser melting; Experimental and computational methods for steel columns subjected to blast loading; Experimental determination of deflagration explosion characteristics of methane-air mixture and their verification by advanced numerical simulation; Development of thermal and structural design technology for a hermetically sealed oil transformer Section 4: Aeronautical and aerospace applications Rim release analysis: impact of aircraft wheel flange fragment on wing flap mechanism; A numerical study on cavity expansion in water: hydraulic ram under ballistic impacts; Structural junction identification methodology Section 5: Response of reinforced concrete under impact Blast resistant design and limits of the response of a structure to an external explosion; Experimental study on the behaviour of concrete filled steel tubular (CFST) members under lateral impact; Predictions of projectile penetration and perforation by DAFL with the free surface effect; Resistance of ultra high performance fibre reinforced concrete to projectile impact; High impact force attenuation of reinforced concrete systems Section 6: Response of building facade and components to blast and impact load (Special session by M. Abdel Mooty) Nonlinear dynamic response of RC building facade panels to impact loads; Progressive collapse analysis of high-rise building considering the effect of outrigger-belt lateral load resisting system; Investigating projectile penetration of sandwich panels with multiple suppressive cores Section 7: Seismic behaviour An outline of RC buildings performance under tsunami triggered by the East Japan Great Earthquake; Evaluation of seismic loads on elevated storage tanks; Natural frequencies of the colonnades of the Parthenon Athens at micro tremor level Section 8: Structural crashworthiness Crashworthiness through smart use of high failure strain steel; Impact of a submarine on the seabed Section 9: Nonlinear numerical analysis Evaluation of the Egyptian seismic code approach to estimation of lateral drift; Simplification of earthquake accelerograms for quick nonlinear time history analyses by using modified Inverse Fourier Transform