Advances in Thick Section Composite and Sandwich Structures

Deformation and Dynamic Instabilities in Composite Structures in Air and Underwater Loading .- High Velocity Impact and Blast Loading of Composite Sandwich Panels with Hybrid Skin Construction .- Explosive Blast Response of Composite Materials .- Response of Composite Materials to Underwater Explosive Loading: Experimental and Computational Investigations .- On the Performance of Foam-Core, Composite Sandwich Structures Subjected to Underwater Blasts .- Recent Developments in Ballistic Performance of Composite Materials .- Low Velocity Impact of Marine Composites: Theory and Experiments .- Transient Deformations of Doubly Curved Shells using Third Order Shear and Normal Deformable Shell Theory .- An Advanced High Order Theory for the Linear and Nonlinear Static and Dynamic Analysis of Sandwich Flat and Curved Panels .- Mechanics Based Modeling of Composite and Sandwich Structures in the Naval Environment: Elastic Behavior, Fracture and Damage Evolution .- Mechanics of Sandwich Constructions in Marine Structures .- A Multi-scale Study of Sandwich Composites Exposed to Mechanical and Non-Mechanical Stimuli .- Damage Tolerance and Assessment of Sandwich Structures .- Dynamic Fracture of Unidirectional Composites Subjected to Water Uptake .- Advances in Failure Criteria for Fibrous Composites .- Towards More Representative Accelerated Aging of Marine Composites .- Temperature Dependence of Statistical Static Strengths for Unidirectional CFRP with Various Carbon Fibers .- Coupled Effects of Seawater and Temperature on US Naval Composite Material System and Sandwich Structurla .- Digital Volumetric Speckle Photography: A Powerful Technique to Probe Interior Deformation Fields of Composites. .- Failure Mechanics of Low-Velocity Dynamic Impact on Woven Polymeric Composites in Arctic Conditions .- Behavior of Composite Materials and Structures in Low Temperature Arctic Conditions .- 3D Printing of Syntactic Foam Components for Marine Applications .- Improvement of

Dr. Sung W. Lee is a Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Dr. Yapa D.S. Rajapakse is Program Manager, Solid Mechanics, Office of Naval Research.