Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Plasticity and Impact Mechanics - Implast 2007

IMPLAST 2007 is the 9th symposium in a series of symposia on Large Deformation
Mechanics, bringing together scientists on related fields as
• Experimental Mechanics of continua subjected to slow, medium and high velocity
loads,
• Constitutive Modelling of the continua,
• Numerical Methods suitable to solve such problems.
The first symposium was held in 1973 at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. It was
organised by Professor N. K. Gupta and Professor B. Karunes. Except the seventh symposium
all following symposia took place at the campus of IIT Delhi and were organised
by Professor N. K. Gupta. It my be worthwile to mention that the international participation
was steadily growing. Soon the idea arised to transfer the venue also to other
countries. Indeed, the seventh IMPLAST symposium was organised by Professor X. L.
Zhao and Professor R. H. Grzebieta in Melbourne/Australia. The present (9th) symposium
takes place in the new Congress Halls of Ruhr-University Bochum. Participation is
seen from 26 countries worldwide.
A large number of internationally recognized researchers have joined the IMPLAST’09
Scientific Committee. By this they contributed to and ensured the quality of submitted
papers and lectures. The editors are very thankful to each of them. A list of the members
is given subsequently.
The Proceedings were set with LATEX typesetting program.
The present Proceedings is organised according to the three topic lines mentioned
above. The reader should be aware that a strict zoning would not always be possible.
The editors like to thank Mr. Birk Liedmann for his great editorial help. Especially
he checked all figures and formulas as well as the final layout. Further thanks are going
to the publisher Dr. Martin Woesler and his team of The Bochum University Press.