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Buildings --- Fire prevention. --- Protection. --- Fire safety --- Fires --- Prevention of fires --- Fire protection engineering --- Public safety --- Insurance engineering --- Building damage prevention --- Building protection --- Protection of buildings --- Building failures --- Fires and fire prevention --- Prevention --- Damage prevention

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This important study focuses on the way in which structures and materials can be best designed to absorb kinetic energy in a controllable and predictable manner. Understanding of energy absorption of structures and materials is important in calculating the damage to structures caused by accidental collision, assessing the residual strength of structures after initial damage and in designing packaging to protect its contents in the event of impact. Whilst a great deal of recent research has taken place into the energy absorption behaviour of structures and materials and significant progress has been made, this knowledge is diffuse and widely scattered. This book offers a synthesis of the most recent developments and forms a detailed and comprehensive view of the area. It is an essential reference for all engineers concerned with materials engineering in relation to the theory of plasticity, structural mechanics and impact dynamics.

Strength of materials. --- Structural dynamics. --- Engineering --- Automobile and Transportation --- Buildings --- Building damage prevention --- Building protection --- Protection of buildings --- Building failures --- Building dynamics --- Dynamics, Structural --- Structural vibration --- Strains and stresses --- Structural analysis (Engineering) --- Architectural engineering --- Engineering, Architectural --- Materials, Strength of --- Resistance of materials --- Building materials --- Flexure --- Mechanics --- Testing --- Elasticity --- Graphic statics --- Protection. --- Damage prevention --- Impact

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69.059.22 --- Building failures --- Buildings --- -Edifices --- Halls --- Structures --- Architecture --- Collapse of buildings --- Building --- Disasters --- Structural failures --- 69.059.22 Damage --- Damage --- Protection --- Accidents --- -Collapse of buildings --- Edifices --- Architecturale construtiefouten --- Bouwwerken (Constructiefouten) --- Vices de construction --- Building damage prevention --- Building protection --- Protection of buildings --- Damage prevention --- Building failures. --- Buildings - Protection. --- Buildings. --- Degradation --- Deterioration

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This book develops several novel foam-filled structures and steel-concrete-steel (SCS) sandwich structures, which provides more alternatives for ensuring the safety of buildings and infrastructures under extreme loading, like impact and blast. In the first part of this book, the aluminium foam- and polyurethane foam-filled structures have been developed for dissipating impact and blast energy. Experimental and numerical studies have been conducted to obtain their behaviours under impact loading. In addition, analytical models have also been proposed to assess their energy absorption performances and facilitate the impact and blast design when using the proposed foam-filled structures. In the second part of this book, SCS sandwich structures with novel shear connectors have been developed and their behaviours under impact and blast loading have been experimentally, numerically and analytical studied. Analytical models for predicting the impact and blast responses of SCS sandwich structures have also been developed. In the third part of this book, a new steel-polyurethane foam-steel-concrete-steel (SPUFSCS) panel (i.e. the combination of foam material and SCS panel) has been developed to achieve a higher impact resistant capacity. Owing to the increasing impact and blast threats on buildings and infrastructures, the studies presented in this book are of significant importance for providing several new solutions for impact and blast enhancement. .

Mechanical engineering. --- Engineering, Mechanical --- Engineering --- Machinery --- Steam engineering --- Civil engineering. --- Fire prevention. --- Buildings --- Mechanics, Applied. --- Civil Engineering. --- Fire Science, Hazard Control, Building Safety. --- Engineering Mechanics. --- Protection. --- Applied mechanics --- Engineering mathematics --- Building damage prevention --- Building protection --- Protection of buildings --- Building failures --- Fire safety --- Fires --- Prevention of fires --- Fire protection engineering --- Public safety --- Insurance engineering --- Public works --- Damage prevention --- Fires and fire prevention --- Prevention

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Buildings --- Building, Bombproof --- Structural analysis (Engineering) --- Building, Bombproof. --- Protection --- Blast effects --- Blast effects. --- Protection. --- Architectural engineering --- Engineering, Architectural --- Structural mechanics --- Structures, Theory of --- Building damage prevention --- Building protection --- Protection of buildings --- Bomb damage to buildings --- Bomb-proof building --- Bomb-proof construction --- Bombproof building --- Bombproof construction --- Edifices --- Halls --- Structures --- Damage prevention --- Structural engineering --- Building failures --- Blast effect --- Underground construction --- Air raid shelters --- Architecture --- War damage --- Civil Engineering --- Built environment