============================================================= SUSI 2006 Ninth International Conference on Structures Under Shock and Impact
3 - 5 July 2006, The New Forest, UK Organised by: Wessex Institute of Technology, UK University of Liverpool, UK Sponsored by: WIT Transactions on the Built Environment University of Liverpool, UK ============================================================= Dear Colleague RE: SUSI 2006: Paper Deadline 7 March 2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------- NEW!! Secure Registration is available at: http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2006/susi2006/2.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- Further to my recent communication, please note that there is still time to submit an abstract for SUSI 2006. In order to allow enough time for the processing and review of your abstract and the completion of your paper, please submit your abstract within the next two weeks and note that the paper deadline is 07 March 2006. Abstracts can be submitted via our website at: http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2006/susi2006/2.html Alternatively please email or fax your submission: Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or Fax: + 44 (0) 238 029 2853 I have included brief details below of the objectives and topics of the conference. We look forward to receiving your abstract, and welcoming your contribution in what promises to be a most successful conference in 2006. Yours sincerely Katie Banham Conference Secretariat **If you have already submitted your Abstract - thank you. You do not need to re-submit it** ============================================================= OBJECTIVES ============================================================= SUSI 2006 is the ninth International Conference in the series on 'Structures Under Shock and Impact'. The meeting's chief objective is to attract support from as wide a spectrum of expertise as possible and across a broad range of impact problems throughout industry. The shock and impact behaviour of structures is a difficult area, not only because of its obvious time-dependent aspects, but also because of the difficulties in specifying the external dynamic loading characteristics and in obtaining the full dynamic properties of materials. Thus it is important to recognise and fully utilise the contributions and understanding emerging from the theoretical, numerical and experimental studies, as well as investigations into the material properties under dynamic loading Papers are invited on the interaction between blast pressure and surface or underground structures, whether the blast is from civilian, military, dust and natural explosions, or any other source. The list of topics gives an idea of the wide range of applications to be discussed during the meeting. Contributions in topics not listed are also welcome if they fall within the scope of the SUSI Conference. SUSI 2006 follows on from the other successful meetings in this series, which first started in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (1989) and continued in Portsmouth, UK (1992); Madrid, Spain (1994); Udine, Italy (1996); Thessaloniki, Greece (1998); Cambridge, UK (2000); Montreal (2002); and Crete (2004). ============================================================= CONFERENCE TOPICS ============================================================= Impact and blast loading characteristics Protection of structures from blast loads Missile penetration and explosion Air craft and missile crash against high-rise buildings Seismic engineering applications Energy absorbing issues Fluid structure interaction Behaviour of structural concrete Behaviour of steel structures Structural behaviour of composites Material response to high rate loading Structural crashworthiness Impact biomechanics Structural serviceability under impact loading Microdynamics Interaction between computational and experimental results Software for shock and impact Bomb blast FULL CONFERENCE DETAILS AT: http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2006/susi2006/2.html ========================================================== Conference Assistant Wessex Institute Ashurst Lodge, Ashurst Southampton, SO40 7AA, UK Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 (0) 238 029 3223 Fax: +44 (0) 238 029 2853