UHPCC Under Impact and Blast

This book is about the Ultra-high Performance Cementitious Composites (UHPCC), which is a relativity new type of cementitious materials. UHPCC has very low water-to-binder ratio, high amount of high-range water reducer, fine aggregates and high-strength steel or organic fibers. With the prominent mechanical properties, e.g., high compressive and tensile strength, high ductility, and high fracture energy, UHPCC has been becoming the most prospective construction cement-based material for both civil and military structures to resist high-speed projectile penetration, low-velocity impact and blast loadings. In this book, the related work conducted by authors on the static and dynamic mechanical properties, as well as the impact and blast resistance of UHPCC are presented. This book is written for the researchers, engineers and graduate students in the fields of protective structures and terminal ballistics.

Static mechanical properties of UHPCC.- Dynamic compressive mechanical properties of UHPCC.- Dynamic tensile mechanical properties of UHPCC.- Triaxial compressive behavior of UHPCC and applications in the projectile impact analyses.- Projectile penetrations into coarse aggregated UHPCC target.- Impact resistance of basalt aggregated UHP- SFRC/fabric composite panel against small caliber arm.- Impact resistance of armor steel/ceramic/UHPCC layered composite targets against 30CrMnSiNi2A steel projectiles.- Response of UHPCC-FST subjected to low- velocity impact.- Dynamic responses of reinforced UHPCC members under low-velocity lateral impact.- Residual axial capacity of UHPCC-FST column under contact explosion.- Experimental and numerical study of UHPCC-FST columns subjected to close-range explosion.- Experimental study on the residual seismic resistance of UHPCC filled steel tube (UHPCC-FST) after contact explosion.- Experimental and numerical studies on dynamic behavior of reinforced UHPCC panel under medium-range explosions.- Constitutive modelling of UHPCC material under impact and blast loadings.

Dr. Qin FANG is a professor of Civil Engineering at Army Engineering University of PLA, China. His research interests include dynamic responses and reinforcement measures of engineering structures under severe loads, such as blast, impact, fire and earthquake. The academic achievements have been widely applied in Chinese codes for protective structures. He has published three academic books entitled “Concrete Structures under Projectile Impact”, “Underground protective structure” (in Chinese) and “Analysis and design of protective structure” (in Chinese), as well as over 400 journal and conference papers. He has been funded by many research projects, such as the Science Fund for Creative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Science Foundation for Distinguished Youth Scholar, the National Basic Research Program of China and so on. Currently, he is a member of the executive board of International Association of Protective Structures, the vice chairman of the Protective Engineering Division of China Civil Engineering Society, as well as a member of the editorial board of International Journal of Protective Structures.

Dr. Hao WU is a professor of Civil Engineering at Tongji University, China. He was majored in the research work on the damage/failure and the dynamic responses of civil infrastructures under intensive impact and blast loadings. He has published 3 academic monographs and 120 academic papers, concerning the high-speed penetration dynamics, ultra-high performance concrete material and structure, nuclear plant under aircraft crash, and highway bridge against collision and blast, etc.

Dr. Xiangzhen KONG is a lecturer of Civil Engineering at Army Engineering University of PLA, China. His research interests include penetration dynamics, constitutive modelling of engineering materials and high-fidelity-physical-based numerical simulation. He has published an academic books entitled “Notes on projectile impact analyses” and over 40 journal papers. He is the middle-aged editorial board member for “Journal of Beijing University of Technology” (in Chinese).