The Department of Engineering Science at Oxford University has recently obtained funding for a project to develop novel experimental techniques for characterising and modelling the response of rubber-like materials to impact loading.  The project will support two studentships, supervised by Dr Clive Siviour in the Solid Mechanics and Materials Engineering Group.

i am doing my mtech project on ballistic imapct of composite plates.i want to include the shock wave response of the material in the vumat code.can anyone provide useful suggestions regarding this?i also want to know can we plot the output results using the vumat code?if its possible what is the command line for that?

This blog is on material behaviors under extreme loading.