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Impact and Blast Effects: Theory, Analysis and Design

 

Date: 19-21 September 2012

Venue: University of Manchester. (Central Manchester Maps and Travel)

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What is the course about?

The course is designed for professional engineers, consultants, researchers and graduate students, who may be involved in analysis, testing, modelling, design and the assessment of structures against impact and blast loads. It will cover basic and theoretical concepts, analytical, modelling and design methods and practical applications for structural protection against impact and blast effects.

Background

Impact and blast threats exist in a wide range of engineering, security and defence sectors, which have been frequently linked to industrial safety (surface/air/space transportations, nuclear power plant, offshore platforms and critical facilities in other industries) and protections against impact and blast effects in terrorist and battlefield events. Depending on the impact velocity and blast intensity, material and structural behaviour may become very different from their quasi-static behaviour when inertia and/or strain-rate effects become dominant in impact and blast events, which need to be considered in the design of protective structures against impact and blast loads. This short course integrates basic theory, design methodology and latest research progress and offers an introduction to professionals and researchers for dealing with impact and blast effects in various engineering fields.

Impact and Blast Effects at the University of Manchester

Many research, teaching and consulting activities on the impact and blast subjects have been conducted in The School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering (MACE) at The University of Manchester. The Impact and Explosion Expert Group in MACE is specialised on penetration mechanics, dynamic behaviour of engineering materials at high strain rates and structural response to impact and blast loads.

 

Who should attend?

This course will provide an introductory training for practicing engineers, consultants, researchers and research students, who may involve in dealing with impact and blast effects in mechanical engineering, civil engineering, nuclear engineering, aerospace engineering, oil and petrochemical engineering and defence engineering and industries. The course will be also suitable to architects, estate developers and security managers, who need updating in the latest developments in this area.

 

Course Presenters:

Dr Qingming Li
Reader and Leader of Impact and Explosion Expert Group
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering — The University of Manchester, UK

Dr Li's expertise is in penetration mechanics, dynamic behaviour of engineering materials at high strain-rates, structural response to impact and blast loads and structural protection. He has more than twenty year’s research experience in these fields and has published more than 100 peer reviewed journal publications on these subjects, involving in analytical, numerical and experimental studies. He has served on relevant international conference committees and chairmanships, undertaken guest editorships, held guest professorships in several universities and provided consultancies to industries and government bodies. He is an associate editor of the International Journal of Impact Engineering and an editorial board member of International Journal of Protective Structures.

Mr John Crawford, PE, President
Karagozian & Case, California, USA

Mr. Crawford has provided engineering services related to blast effects to a variety of US Government agencies, building developers and owners, as well as commercial engineering and architectural firms for over 30 years. This work includes designing structural and mechanical systems to resist blast loads; developing engineering tools and first principle finite element codes for predicting the response of structural and mechanical systems to airblast and high velocity impacts; and testing full-scale and scaled structural systems under small to very large blast loads. In recent years, much of his work has been focused on the antiterrorist programs of various US Government agencies, performing blast effects analyses of a variety of buildings and structures, and developing design concepts for new construction and retrofit of existing buildings to protect them from blast and impact loads.

Dr. Shengrui Lan
Principal Engineer / Head of Computation Group, Karagozian & case, USA

Dr. Lan has 25 years experience in structural engineering, focusing on finite element analysis of structures under static, dynamic, blast and impact loads.  He has performed numerous high-fidelity physics based (HFPB) finite element analyses for blast and impact effects on various protective structures/systems for evaluating their blast/impact resistance and determining their design parameters. His HFPB models have been validated by many full-scale blast field tests and vehicle crash tests.

Dr. Lan has managed/involved numerous projects in blast effects analysis and design for blast protection of airport facilities, blast mitigation retrofits of office buildings including perimeter protection, window upgrade, column retrofit, progressive collapse mitigation and internal explosion isolation.  He has been a key member in developing a series of anti-ram devices for DOS K4 to K12 ratings and a K50 anti-ram wall, which passed the vehicle crash tests. He authored over 50 papers and reports related to blast and impact effects analysis/design and structural engineering.

 

How to apply:

You can apply either fill in the leaflet on the back of the leaflet and return it to us by post or by Fax, or you can apply online and pay directly using our Online Store.

Accommodation:

Delegates are responsible for booking their own accommodation.
Manchester Conference Centre, is next door to the George Begg Building and the cost is approximately £79 bed and breakfast (inc VAT).
Telephone 0161 955 8000
Address: Manchester Conference Centre, Weston Building, Sackville Street, Manchester, M1 3BB

(The Manchester Conference Centre is Number 11 on the University map.)

Manchester Conference centre

Alternative accommodation:

Nearby IBIS Hotel, cost is approximately £67 bed and breakfast (inc VAT)
Address: IBIS Hotel, Charles Street, Manchester, M1 7DG

IBIS Hotel quite close to the university

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Course Fee:
£690 per delegate. (The fee include lunches and tea/coffee on the three days and the course evening dinner on second day.)

How to pay:

We have the following options. You can pay and register directly with our Online Store. (Link to Follow)

Online Store

• Invoice (Please send details of who should receive it)
• The Account Code for the Impact and Blast Effect Course is AA09820
• Bank Transfer:

  To pay straight into the bank account please e-mail cashiers@manchester.ac.uk for the bank details'
  

Cancellation:

Up to three weeks before the event: free of charge
Up to one week before: 50%.
Non-attendance will not receive a refund.
Cancellation must be in writing to the Course Administrator in advance.

Cancellation by the University
The University reserves the right to cancel the course 10 days before if there are not sufficient delegates registered.