International Journal of Protective Structures
Because of increased terrorist activities, the effective protection of critical civil infrastructure such as embassies, government buildings, airports and bridges against blast loads has become a critical issue.
Moreover, the effects of military ordnance on civil infrastructure, and collateral damage estimation, are increasingly topics of relevance to defence agencies and government. Hence, there has been a significant increase in research activities related to infrastructure protection against blast loads around the world. Many new research results have been obtained.
In addition to blast loads from terrorist actions or accidental gas explosions, vehicle impact on road and bridge infrastructure, ship impact on bridge structures, and impact between adjacent structures during earthquake shakings, drop weight effects, etc have also been reported to cause structural damage and failure.
Many research activities are devoted to the modeling and analysis of shock and impact effects on structures. Penetration and perforation analysis, material failure in high strain rate loading, test method developments in shock and impact conditions have also attracted increasing research interests in recent years.
International Journal of Protective Structures is a peer-reviewed journal publishing high quality research papers related to civil infrastructure protection against natural or man-made shock and impact loads.
The journal is the flagship publication of the International Association of Protective Structures (http://www.protectivestructures.org/).
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International Journal of Protective Structures is a peer-reviewed journal publishing high quality research papers related to civil infrastructure protection against natural or man-made shock and impact loads, including but not limited to blast loads from terrorist actions or accidental gas explosions, vehicle impact on road and bridge infrastructure, ship impact on bridge structures, impact between adjacent structures during earthquake shakings, and drop weight effects.
The journal is the flagship publication of the International Association of Protective Structures (http://www.protectivestructures.org/).
It welcomes original papers related to the themes of the journal. Civil infrastructure may include, but is not limited to, buildings, bridges, pipelines, offshore platforms, shipping, defence facilities and other onshore, offshore, above-ground or underground structures.
The journal will be an effective medium for the timely dissemination of research findings that will not only benefit the professional communities, but also society as a whole for effective infrastructure protection. It will serve as a bridge to link active researchers, academics, engineers and policy makers around the world.
| Hong Hao | Curtin University, Australia |
| Wensu Chen | Curtin University, Australia |
| James Davidson | Auburn University, USA |
| Norbert Gebbeken | University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany |
| Yong Lu | University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Daniel Ambrosini | CONICET / National University of Cuyo, Argentina |
| Masuhiro Beppu | National Defense Academy, Japan |
| Ezio Cadoni | University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Switzerland |
| Li Chen | Southeast University, China |
| Suwen Chen | Tongji University, China |
| Xiaowei Chen | Beijing Institute of Technology, China |
| Nawawi Chouw | University of Auckland, New Zealand |
| Steeve Chung Kim Yuen | University of Cape Town, South Africa |
| Avraham Dancygier | Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel |
| Xiuli Du | Beijing University of Technology, China |
| Qin Fang | Army Engineering University of PLA, China |
| Kazunori Fujikake | National Defense Academy, Japan |
| Hezi Grisaro | Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel |
| Yifei Hao | Hebei University of Technology, China |
| Toshiyuki Horiguchi | National Defense Academy, Japan |
| Mohd Ashraf Iqbal | Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India |
| Leopold Kruszka | Military University of Technology, Poland |
| A. Praveen Kumar | Easwari Engineering College, India |
| Genevieve Langdon | University of Sheffield, UK |
| Jun Li | University of Technology Sydney, Australia |
| Qingmin Li | The University of Manchester, UK |
| Zhong-Xian Li | Tianjin University, China |
| Guoxing Lu | Swinburne University, Australia |
| Bibiana Luccioni | National University of Tucumán, Argentina |
| Guowei Ma | Hebei University of Technology, China |
| Vasant Matsagar | Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India |
| Priyan Mendis | The University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Tuan Ngo | The University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Jeffrey Packer | University of Toronto, Canada |
| Thong M. Pham | Curtin University, Australia |
| Ser Tong Quek | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Malte von Ramin | Fraunhofer Ernst-Mach-Institute (EMI), Germany |
| Ghani Razaqpur | McMaster University, Canada |
| Alex Remennikov | University of Wollogong, Australia |
| Werner Riedel | Fraunhofer EMI, Germany |
| Sam Rigby | University of Sheffield, UK |
| Hani Salim | University of Missouri, USA |
| Yanchao Shi | Tianjin University, China |
| Piotr Sielicki | Poznan University of Technology, Poland |
| Yoshimi Sonoda | Kyushu University, Japan |
| Catherine Stephens | Army Engineer Research and Development Center, USA |
| Lauren Stewart | Georgia Tech, USA |
| Mark Stewart | University of Technology Sydney, Australia |
| Andrew Tyas | University of Sheffield, UK |
| Andrew Whittaker | MCEER/University at Buffalo, USA |
| Chengqing Wu | University of Technology Sydney, Australia |
| David Yankelevsky | Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel |
| Chunwei Zhang | Qingdao University of Technology, China |
| Xihong Zhang | Curtin University, Australia |
| Hongyuan Zhou | Beijing University of Technology, China |
| Xiaoqing Zhou | Shenzhen University, China |
| Yan Zhuge | University of South Australia, Australia |
| Zhouhong Zong | Southeast University, China |
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