Blast Mitigation Strategies in Marine Composite and Sandwich Structures (Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering)

This book primarily focuses on methodologies to enable marine structures to resist high velocity impact loadings. It is based on invited talks presented at the recent India–USA workshop on “Recent Advances in Blast Mitigation Strategies in Civil and Marine Composite Structures” The book comprises content from top researchers from India and the USA and covers various aspects of the topic, including modeling and simulation, design aspects, experimentation and various challenges. These failure modes significantly reduce the structural integrity of the marine structures unless they are designed to resist such harsh loadings. Understanding the mechanics of these structures under harsh loadings is still an open area of research, and the behavior of these structures is not fully understood. The book highlights efforts to reduce the effects of blast loadings on marine composite structures. Intended for researchers/scientists and practicing engineers, the book focuses not only the design and analysis challenges of marine composite structures under such harsh loading conditions, but also provides new design guidelines. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv Mitigation of Energy Emanating from Imploding Metallic and Composite Underwater Structures (Helio Matos, Michael Pinto, Arun Shukla)....Pages 1-22 Underwater Explosion Response of Sandwich Structures with Compliant Cores (Brian Hayman)....Pages 23-52 The Effects of Polyurea Coatings on the Underwater Explosive Response of Composite Plates (James LeBlanc, Arun Shukla)....Pages 53-72 Sandwich Structures Subjected to UNDEX Loading (B. Raja Sekhar, S. Gopalakrishnan)....Pages 73-96 Concentrated Load Impulse Response of a Sandwich Beam/Wide Plate: Dynamic Elasticity and Extended High Order Sandwich Panel Theory Solutions (Nunthadech Rodcheuy, George A. Kardomateas)....Pages 97-117 Explosion-Induced Shock Waves Through a Medium and Associated Structural Response (Nilanjan Mitra)....Pages 119-130 Uncertainty in Structural Response Prediction of Composite Structures Subjected to Blast Loading: Modeling, Quantification, and Reduction (Zhen Hu, Sankaran Mahadevan)....Pages 131-156 Shock Interactions with Structures and Their Associated Induced Flows (K. Kontis)....Pages 157-170 Dynamic Response of Syntactic Foams and Sandwich Composites: Blast and High Strain Rate Loading (Dung D. Luong, Luca Ansuini, Nikhil Gupta)....Pages 171-190 Wave Propagation and Dynamic Correction Factors for Composite Structures (Roberta Massabò)....Pages 191-208 Blast Performance and Damage Assessment of Composite Sandwich Structures (Emily Rolfe, Mark Kelly, Hari Arora, Paul A. Hooper, John P. Dear)....Pages 209-225 Damage and Failure of Blast Loaded Fiber-Reinforced Composite Laminates Considering Material and Geometric Nonlinearities (Romesh C. Batra)....Pages 227-245 Stress Triaxiality in Damage Models (S. R. Hiremath, Deepak Alapur, D. Roy Mahapatra)....Pages 247-264 Blast Mitigation Effects of Foam-Core, Composite Sandwich Structures (Michelle S. Hoo Fatt, Moshabab Alkhtany, Dushyanth Sirivolu)....Pages 265-280 Nanowire Reinforcements for Improving the Interlaminar Properties of Textile Composites (Pavana Prabhakar)....Pages 281-299 Shock Wave Mitigation Using Liquids (H. Jeon, V. Eliasson)....Pages 301-320 Coatings for Mitigating the Effects of Underwater Shock Waves on Structures (Serge Abrate)....Pages 321-335 Shock Tubes: A Tool to Create Explosions Without Using Explosives (I. Obed Samuelraj, G. Jagadeesh)....Pages 337-356 Elastic Metamaterials for Blast Wave Impact Mitigation (H. Chen, M. V. Barnhart, Y. Y. Chen, G. L. Huang)....Pages 357-375 Blast Mitigation Through the Operation of Steering the Incoming Wave by the Use of Active Metamaterial Structure (Sathya Hanagud, Pavitra Manghaiapathy)....Pages 377-396 Bioinspired Layered Composite Principles of Biomineralized Fish Scale (M. D. Nelms, W. D. Hodo, A. M. Rajendran)....Pages 397-421 Constitutive Material Models for High Strain Rate Behavior of Cementitious Materials from Material Chemistry—Molecular Dynamics Modeling Methodology with Illustrative Application to Hydrated Calcium Silicate Hydrate Jennite (J. Rivas Murillo, R. Mohan, A. Mohamed)....Pages 423-442 Geometry and Size Effects in Response of Composite Structures Subjected to Water-Based Impulsive Loading (Siddharth Avachat, Tao Qu, Min Zhou)....Pages 443-470