Impact and Explosion Expert Group
Impact and explosion and their effects appear in all engineering sectors. They cover both fundamental and applicable researches and interact with other subjects, e.g. physics, chemistry, material science, applied mathematics, computation and experimental technology.
The group maintains a functioned impact and blast laboratory for research, consultation and research student training purposes.
Group members
Group Leader: Dr Qingming Li
Membership: Dr Daniele Colombo, Dr Keith Davey, Dr S Olutunde Oyadiji, Dr Sergei Utyuzhnikov, Prof Yong Wang, Dr Jack Wu, Dr Zhenjun Yang, Dr Zhenmin Zou
Impact and explosion are intensive dynamic loads, which are classified as extreme loading scenarios. The effects of impact and explosion need to be considered in the material selection and the design of many civilian and military structures. The concerned subject includes following topics
- Constitutive and hydrodynamic behaviours of engineering materials at high strain rates
- Computational mechanics of impact and explosion effects
- Crashworthiness of air/surface transportation vehicles (aircraft, automobile, train, ship)
- Crash barriers and energy absorbing devices
- Safety of space shuttles (impact of taking-off debris, space debris)
- Engineering structures (pipeline, platform, industrial plant, nuclear power station) against accidental missiles, natural missiles and explosion
- Industrial operations (explosion manufacture, mining, excavation, demolition)
- Weapon effects (ballistics, detonation, penetration and perforation)
- Protective technology (protective construction, vehicle armors, body armors) against natural disasters, military attacks and terrorist threats