Download or read book Structures Under Crash and Impact written by Stefan Hiermaier and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-10-23 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the testing and modeling of materials and structures under dynamic loading conditions. Readers get an in-depth analysis of the current mathematical modeling and simulation tools available for a variety of materials, alongside discussions of the benefits and limitations of these tools in industrial design. Following a logical and well organized structure, this volume uniquely combines experimental procedures with numerical simulation, and provides many examples.