Advances in Thick Section Composite and Sandwich Structures

Dr. Sung W. Lee is a Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Dr. Yapa D.S. Rajapakse is Program Manager, Solid Mechanics, Office of Naval Research.

Deformation and Dynamic Instabilities in Composite Structures in Air and Underwater Loading .- High Velocity Impact and Blast Loading of Composite Sandwich Panels with Hybrid Skin Construction .- Explosive Blast Response of Composite Materials .- Response of Composite Materials to Underwater Explosive Loading: Experimental and Computational Investigations .- On the Performance of Foam-Core, Composite Sandwich Structures Subjected to Underwater Blasts .- Recent Developments in Ballistic Performance of Composite Materials .- Low Velocity Impact of Marine Composites: Theory and Experiments .- Transient Deformations of Doubly Curved Shells using Third Order Shear and Normal Deformable Shell Theory .- An Advanced High Order Theory for the Linear and Nonlinear Static and Dynamic Analysis of Sandwich Flat and Curved Panels .- Mechanics Based Modeling of Composite and Sandwich Structures in the Naval Environment: Elastic Behavior, Fracture and Damage Evolution .- Mechanics of Sandwich Constructions in Marine Structures .- A Multi-scale Study of Sandwich Composites Exposed to Mechanical and Non-Mechanical Stimuli .- Damage Tolerance and Assessment of Sandwich Structures .- Dynamic Fracture of Unidirectional Composites Subjected to Water Uptake .- Advances in Failure Criteria for Fibrous Composites .- Towards More Representative Accelerated Aging of Marine Composites .- Temperature Dependence of Statistical Static Strengths for Unidirectional CFRP with Various Carbon Fibers .- Coupled Effects of Seawater and Temperature on US Naval Composite Material System and Sandwich Structurla .- Digital Volumetric Speckle Photography: A Powerful Technique to Probe Interior Deformation Fields of Composites. .- Failure Mechanics of Low-Velocity Dynamic Impact on Woven Polymeric Composites in Arctic Conditions .- Behavior of Composite Materials and Structures in Low Temperature Arctic Conditions .- 3D Printing of Syntactic Foam Components for Marine Applications .- Improvement of Performance of Carbon/Epoxy Composites by Modifying the Epoxy with Binary Nanoparticles.