Modern Impact and Penetration Mechanics

Indispensable treatise on the mechanics of extreme dynamic events, including impact, shocks, penetration and high-rate material response.

James D. Walker (Author)

9781108497107, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 22 April 2021

694 pages
25 x 17.5 x 4 cm, 1.28 kg

'This is a superb (well organized and very informative) monograph … The bibliography is comprehensive, including extensive recent work on impact and penetration. Readers will need a solid background in continuum or solid mechanics … Recommended.' J. Lambropoulos, CHOICE

This graduate text is indispensable for those wanting to see and understand the mechanics of extreme dynamic events. It describes in detail the mechanics and material models used in understanding impact and penetration events. Covers continuum mechanics, the Hugoniot jump conditions, plasticity theory, damage and failure theory, shock and wave propagation in both Eulerian and Lagrangian frameworks, and the high pressure and high-rate response of materials. Nonlinearity in response of materials and systems is a common theme, showing itself in interesting and surprising ways. Materials are studied through damage to failure, since in armor and protection applications materials are utilized all the way through failure. Continuum and constitutive modelling topics required for modern large-scale numerical simulation techniques are clearly described. Extensive exercises ensure comprehension and explore new topics. This text is appropriate for a variety of graduate courses, including Continuum Mechanics, Advanced Solid Mechanics, and Plasticity and Inelasticity Theory.

1. Introduction
2. Conservation laws and the Hugoniot jump conditions
3. The behavior of solids
4. Mechanical waves, shocks, and rarefactions
5. Elastic-plastic deformation and shocks
6. The cavity expansion
7. Penetration
8. The Tate-Alekseevskii model
9. The crater and ejecta
10. The Walker-Anderson model
11. Finite targets
12. Nondeforming (rigid) impactors
13. Yarns, fabrics, and fiber-based composites
14. Rotation, stretch, and finite elasticity

Subject Areas: Mechanics of solids [TGMD], Engineering: general [TBC], Wave mechanics [vibration & acoustics PHDS], Fluid mechanics [PHDF], Nature Conservation law [LNKN]