Dynamic Deformation, Damage and Fracture in Composite Materials and Structures

Professor Vadim Silberschmidt is Chair of Mechanics of Materials, ICoVIS Director, and Head of the Mechanics of Advanced Materials Research Group, Loughborough University, United Kingdom. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier book series Mechanics of Advanced Materials. He is also Associate Editor and/or serves on the board of a number of renowned journals. He has co-authored six research monographs and more than 620 peer-reviewed scientific papers on mechanics and micromechanics of deformation, damage, and fracture in advanced materials under various conditions.

1. Introduction 2. Damage tolerance of composite structures under low-velocity impact 3. Dynamic interfacial fracture 4. Low-velocity impact of composite laminates: damage evolution 5. Low-velocity impact on preloaded and curved laminates 6. High-velocity impact damage in CFRP laminates 7. Dynamic damage in FRPs: from low to high velocity 8. The dynamic loading response of carbon-fiber-filled polymer composites 9. The response to underwater blast 10. Dynamic loading of composite structures with fluide-structure interaction 11. Shock loading of polymer composites 12. Blast response of sandwich structures: the influence of curvature 13. Cellular sandwich composites under blast loads 14. Ballistic impact behavior of composites: analytical formulation 15. Dynamic fracture behaviour of additively manufactured composite materials 16. Impact resistance of sandwich plates 17. Ballistic impact of woven carbon/epoxy composites with ice projectile 18. Impact behaviour of fibre-metal laminates 19. Dynamic large-deflection bending of laminates 20. Energy absorption of composite shin-guard structure under low-velocity impacts