blast in deep water

Dear all,
I am proud to present to i-mechanicians some recent work by my student Andreas Schiffer. We provide a new experimental technique and detailed analytical models to explore one-dimensional underwater blast problems in deep water.
  
Schiffer et al, 2012, The Response of Rigid Plates to Deep Water Blast: Analytical Models and Finite Element Predictions, J. App. Mech

http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.4006458

Schiffer and Tagarielli, 2012, The response of rigid plates to blast in deep water: fluid–structure interaction experiments, Proc. Roy. Soc. A

http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2012/05/08/rspa.2012.0076.abstract 

Six more papers by Schiffer/Tagarielli will appear soon on similar topics, inculding:

- underwater blast on orthotropic elastic plates

- underwater blast on sandwich structures

- underwater blast on a monolithic double-hull structure

Hope you will enjoy the read

V