Notes for Physics of Explosion

Industrial Placement (2007/2008)
Supervisor: Henry Tan
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
The University of Manchester

Material Point Method for impact, fracture, fragmentation and explosion
Mr. Jayveer Thakoor

Industrial Placement: Optimising superplastic form die shape for next generation aero engine production, a design project from Rolls-Royce plc.
Mr. Waqas Ahmad

Individual Projects (2007/2008)
Supervisor: Henry Tan
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
The University of Manchester

Recently Henry talked about software that could be used to simulate explosions and introduced CartaBlanca. Luming asked whether anyone had used the software, how good it was, and whether one needed Java to implement models into CartaBlanca.

As far as I understand, CartaBlanca is the offshoot of Brian (Bucky) Kashiawa's CFDLib code and contains an implementation of Debra Sulsky's version of MPM. Our group had worked closely with Bucky in early stages of the development of the Uintah code at C-SAFE. Bucky's fluid-structure interaction ideas form the basis of our code though we have moved away from Sulsky's version of MPM.

This blog is on the sandwich structures.

An Australian Research Council funded PhD Scholarship is available in the Department of Civil Engineering at Monash University in Australia in the area of computational mechanics. The objective of this project is to develop a multi-scale bifurcation-based decohesion model within the framework of the Material Point Method (MPM), one of the meshfree methods, for simulating glass fragmentation under blast loading. The proposed multi-scale decohesion model will be calibrated by combining molecular dynamics and continuum mechanics approaches, and the simulation results will be verified by available experimental data.

This blog is on material behaviors under extreme loading.

The conferences I attended that relates to the behaviour of energetic composite materials.