Professor Vadim Silberschmidt is Chair of Mechanics of Materials, ICoVIS Director, and Head of the Mechanics of Advanced Materials Research Group, Loughborough University, United Kingdom. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier book series Mechanics of Advanced Materials. He is also Associate Editor and/or serves on the board of a number of renowned journals. He has co-authored six research monographs and more than 620 peer-reviewed scientific papers on mechanics and micromechanics of deformation, damage, and fracture in advanced materials under various conditions.

• 1. Introduction2. Damage tolerance of composite structures under low-velocity impact3. Dynamic interfacial fracture4. Low-velocity impact of composite laminates: damage evolution 5. Low-velocity impact on preloaded and curved laminates6. High-velocity impact damage in CFRP laminates7. Dynamic damage in FRPs: from low to high velocity8. The dynamic loading response of carbon-fiber-filled polymer composites9. The response to underwater blast10. Dynamic loading of composite structures with fluide-structure interaction11. Shock loading of polymer composites12. Blast response of sandwich structures: the influence of curvature13. Cellular sandwich composites under blast loads14. Ballistic impact behavior of composites: analytical formulation15. Dynamic fracture behaviour of additively manufactured composite materials16. Impact resistance of sandwich plates17. Ballistic impact of woven carbon/epoxy composites with ice projectile18. Impact behaviour of fibre-metal laminates19. Dynamic large-deflection bending of laminates20. Energy absorption of composite shin-guard structure under low-velocity impacts

Professor Vadim Silberschmidt is Chair of Mechanics of Materials, ICoVIS Director, and Head of the Mechanics of Advanced Materials Research Group, Loughborough University, United Kingdom. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier book series Mechanics of Advanced Materials. He is also Associate Editor and/or serves on the board of a number of renowned journals. He has co-authored six research monographs and more than 620 peer-reviewed scientific papers on mechanics and micromechanics of deformation, damage, and fracture in advanced materials under various conditions.

• 1. Introduction2. Damage tolerance of composite structures under low-velocity impact3. Dynamic interfacial fracture4. Low-velocity impact of composite laminates: damage evolution 5. Low-velocity impact on preloaded and curved laminates6. High-velocity impact damage in CFRP laminates7. Dynamic damage in FRPs: from low to high velocity8. The dynamic loading response of carbon-fiber-filled polymer composites9. The response to underwater blast10. Dynamic loading of composite structures with fluide-structure interaction11. Shock loading of polymer composites12. Blast response of sandwich structures: the influence of curvature13. Cellular sandwich composites under blast loads14. Ballistic impact behavior of composites: analytical formulation15. Dynamic fracture behaviour of additively manufactured composite materials16. Impact resistance of sandwich plates17. Ballistic impact of woven carbon/epoxy composites with ice projectile18. Impact behaviour of fibre-metal laminates19. Dynamic large-deflection bending of laminates20. Energy absorption of composite shin-guard structure under low-velocity impacts

Professor Vadim Silberschmidt is Chair of Mechanics of Materials, ICoVIS Director, and Head of the Mechanics of Advanced Materials Research Group, Loughborough University, United Kingdom. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier book series Mechanics of Advanced Materials. He is also Associate Editor and/or serves on the board of a number of renowned journals. He has co-authored six research monographs and more than 620 peer-reviewed scientific papers on mechanics and micromechanics of deformation, damage, and fracture in advanced materials under various conditions.

• 1. Introduction2. Damage tolerance of composite structures under low-velocity impact3. Dynamic interfacial fracture4. Low-velocity impact of composite laminates: damage evolution 5. Low-velocity impact on preloaded and curved laminates6. High-velocity impact damage in CFRP laminates7. Dynamic damage in FRPs: from low to high velocity8. The dynamic loading response of carbon-fiber-filled polymer composites9. The response to underwater blast10. Dynamic loading of composite structures with fluide-structure interaction11. Shock loading of polymer composites12. Blast response of sandwich structures: the influence of curvature13. Cellular sandwich composites under blast loads14. Ballistic impact behavior of composites: analytical formulation15. Dynamic fracture behaviour of additively manufactured composite materials16. Impact resistance of sandwich plates17. Ballistic impact of woven carbon/epoxy composites with ice projectile18. Impact behaviour of fibre-metal laminates19. Dynamic large-deflection bending of laminates20. Energy absorption of composite shin-guard structure under low-velocity impacts