Manchester University: New Short Course on Impact and Blast Effects
September 5, 2011
What is the course about?
The course is designed for professional engineers, consultants, researchers and graduate students, who may be involved in analysis, testing, modeling, design and the assessment of structures against impact and blast loads. It will cover basic and theoretical concepts, analytical, modeling and design methods and practical applications for structural protection against impact and blast effects.
Background
Impact and blast threats exist in a wide range of engineering, security and defense sectors, which have been frequently linked to industrial safety (surface/air/space transportation, nuclear power plant, offshore platforms and critical facilities in other industries) and protections against impact and blast effects in terrorist and battlefield events. Depending on the impact velocity and blast intensity, material and structural behavior may become very different from their quasi-static behavior when inertia and/or strain-rate effects become dominant in impact and blast events, which need to be considered in the design of protective structures against impact and blast loads. This short course integrates basic theory, design methodology and latest research progress and offers an introduction to professionals and researchers for dealing with impact.
Who should attend?
This course will provide an introductory training for practicing engineers, consultants, researchers and research students, who may involve in dealing with impact and blast effects in mechanical engineering, civil engineering, nuclear engineering, aerospace engineering, oil and petrochemical engineering and defense engineering and industries. The course will be also suitable to architects, estate developers and security managers, who need updating in the latest developments in this area.
Course Presenters from K&C
Mr. John Crawford, PE
President
Mr. Crawford has provided engineering services related to blast effects to a variety of US Government agencies, building developers and owners, as well as commercial engineering and architectural firms for over 30 years. This work includes designing structural and mechanical systems to resist blast loads; developing engineering tools and first principle finite element codes for predicting the response of structural and mechanical systems to airblast and high velocity impacts; and testing full-scale and scaled structural systems under small to very large blast loads. In recent years, much of his work has been focused on the anti-terrorist programs of various US Government agencies, performing blast effects analyses of a variety of buildings and structures, and developing design concepts for new construction and retrofit of existing buildings to protect them from blast and impact loads.
Dr. Shengrui Lan
Principal Engineer / Head of Computation Group
Dr. Lan has 25 years of experience in structural engineering, focusing on finite element analysis of structures under static, dynamic, blast and impact loads. He has performed numerous high-fidelity physics based (HFPB) finite e<lement analyses for blast and impact effects on various protective structures/systems for evaluating their blast/impact resistance and determining their design parameters. His HFPB models have been validated by many full-scale blast field tests and vehicle crash tests.
Dr. Lan has managed/involved numerous projects in blast effects analysis and design for blast protection of airport facilities, blast mitigation retrofits of office buildings including perimeter protection, window upgrade, column retrofit, progressive collapse mitigation and internal explosion isolation. He has been a key member in developing a series of anti-ram devices for DOS K4 to K12 ratings and a K50 anti-ram wall, which passed the vehicle crash tests. He authored over 50 papers and reports related to blast and impact effects analysis/design and structural engineering.
Signup Link: http://www.mace.manchester.ac.uk/business/cpd/courses/ballistic/index.html