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Organizers: Wessex Institute of Technology
Description:
SUSI 2002 is the seventh international conference in the series on `Structures Under
Shock and Impact'. The meeting's chief objective is to attract support from as wide a
spectrum of expertise as possible and across a broad range of impact problems throughout
industry.
The shock and impact behaviour of structures is a difficult area, not only because of the obvious time-dependent aspects, but also because of the difficulties in specifying the external dynamic loading characteristics and in obtaining the full dynamic properties of materials. Thus, it is important to recognise and utilise fully the contributions and understanding emerging from theoretical, numerical and experimental studies, as well as investigations into the material properties under dynamic loading conditions.
Papers are invited on the interaction between blast pressure and surface or underground substructures, whether the blast is from civilian, military, dust explosions, vapour cloud detonation or other source. As in the earlier conferences, it is hoped that there will be discussions on methods of assessment of the residual strength of structures damaged by blast or fragmentation.
SUSI 2002 follows on from the other successful meetings in this series, which first started in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (1989) and continued in Portsmouth, England (1992); Madrid, Spain (1994); Udine, Italy (1996); Thessaloniki, Greece (1998) and Cambridge, UK (2000).
Date received: November 12, 2001
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