Structural Impact

Dr Norman Jones is an Emeritus Professor of Engineering at the University of Liverpool. He was previously the A. A. Griffith Professor of Engineering, headed the University's Department of Mechanical Engineering (1982–1990) and served as Director of the Impact Research Centre (1985–2005). Prior to that, he was a Professor of Ocean Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has published more than 300 papers, principally on many aspects of the response of structures subjected to dynamic, impact and blast loadings which produce large inelastic strains. He is the honorary editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Impact Engineering and was editor (1983–87) and editor-in-chief (1988–2008) and is the author of the first edition of Structural Impact (1989, 1997). Professor Jones is honorary professor at Huazhong and Taiyuan Universities of Science and Technology in China, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (London) and a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.

'… will make a valuable contribution to this important and difficult area of structural mechanics. Structural Impact is well written … and can be recommended as a reference textbook …' Applied Mechanics Review

• 1. Static plastic behaviour of beams; 2. Static plastic behaviour of plates and shells; 3. Dynamic plastic behaviour of beams; 4. Dynamic plastic behaviour of plates; 5. Dynamic plastic behaviour of shells; 6. Influence of transverse shear and rotatory inertia; 7. Influence of finite displacements; 8. Strain rate sensitive behaviour of materials; 9. Dynamic progressive buckling; 10. Dynamic plastic buckling; 11. Scaling laws.