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Explosion-Induced Shock Waves Through a Medium and Associated Structural Response

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Propagation of shock waves through a medium and its associated study of the fluid–structure interaction require a proper understanding of the shock response of the medium. In many situations, the medium characteristic may change as a result of shock loading which needs to be understood properly before one tries to develop blast mitigation solutions. The manuscript demonstrates situations in which the medium undergoes phase transformation (liquid water changing to ice VII), molecular dissociation, and ionization (air medium) and its associated effect on the calculation of fluid–structure interaction parameter. Once the loading is determined, the structural response is also necessary to be understood carefully and there may be situations in which conventional constitutive models in standard continuum mechanics solution may not be realistic to properly characterize the situation. Such cases are demonstrated in this manuscript citing examples of shock-induced delamination in sandwich composite materials, structural phase transformations in metals, and molecular dissociation in polymers. Through all these discussions the primary objective of this manuscript is to provide cautionary guidelines through which blast mitigation strategies for structures may be conceived. Almost all the works described in this manuscript are based on the years of studies carried out by the author’s group at IIT Kharagpur.

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Mitra, N. (2018). Explosion-Induced Shock Waves Through a Medium and Associated Structural Response. In: Gopalakrishnan, S., Rajapakse, Y. (eds) Blast Mitigation Strategies in Marine Composite and Sandwich Structures. Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7170-6_6

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