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Title:
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Computational Methods in Impact Engineering 

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Organizers:
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Ashkan Vaziri 
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences 
Harvard University
avaziri@deas.harvard.edu 
617-496-5167

Zhenyu Xue
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University
Xue@deas.harvard.edu
617-496-5167

Vikram S. Deshpande
Department of Engineering 
University of Cambridge
vsd@eng.cam.ac.uk
+44 (0)1223 332664

Horacio D. Espinosa
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Northwestern University
espinosa@northwestern.edu
847-467-5989

Honorary organizer:
John W. Hutchinson
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences 
Harvard University
hutchinson@husm.harvard.edu 
(617) 495-2848

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Minisymposium description:
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The aim of the "Computational Methods in Impact Engineering" mini-symposium is to 
recognize the increasing role of the computation methods in Impact Engineering. It 
is now established that computational tools are indispensable to augment experimental 
techniques for the analysis of complex systems under dynamic loading. Many new 
computational techniques are currently being developed and new applications in the 
fields of impact and shock loadings are emerging.  This mini-symposium will bring 
together engineers and scientists working in the area of Computational Impact 
Engineering.

Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to) the following:

* Response of Structures to dynamic and explosive type loading
* Development of a new protective structures
* Constitutive modeling and homogenization methods for structures under dynamic 
  loading
* Development of constitutive models for the dynamic response of soft tissue
* Novel approaches in computational Fluid-Structure Interaction such as coupled 
  Euler/Lagrangian method.
* Advances in Computational methods in Impact Engineering
* Dynamic buckling and post-buckling analysis under impact
* Failure mechanisms of structures under impact loading
* New approaches in Dynamic Failure simulations such, such as Discontinuous enrichment 
  in finite elements and Cohesive formulations.
* Remeshing techniques for ballistic.
* Computation-assisted design optimization of crashworthiness structures
* Crash Safety