This is the concluding chapter of the book, which provides a basic introduction to applied impact mechanics (AIM) to handle the complexities confronting impact engineering design for high velocity ballistics and vehicle collisions. Modern engineering design and analysis implies a proper choice of materials, manufacturing methods and optimized structural geometry to withstand expected impact and environmental loads. The study of vehicle collision, vehicle and occupant safety, vehicle crashworthiness and restraint systems are important areas of concern for the vehicle manufacturers in conceptualization, design, realisation and evaluation of transport vehicles. AIM therefore encompasses a vast and diverse field of experimental, theoretical and computational concepts and techniques. AIM dealing with the response of solids and structures from an engineering design viewpoint is a challenging area of opportunities as well as threats. There are infinitely myriad combinations of colliding bodies depending on their geometry, constitution, momenta and kinetic energy.
Concluding Remarks
Applied Impact Mechanics ; 313-322
2016-06-14
10 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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