17th International Conference on Structures under Shock and Impact

Date : 9th June 2025 to 11th June 2025

Place : United Kingdom, Edinburgh

Website :https://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2025/susi-2025

Contact Person:Jane Chantler

Description:

SUSI 2025 is the 17th event in the successful series of International Conferences on Structures under Shock and Impact.

17th International Conference on Structures under Shock and Impact will be held in Edinburgh,United Kingdom on date 2025-06-11

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Deadline for abstracts/proposals : 1st April 2024

Keynote Speakers :

Conference Highlights :SUSI 2025
The Wessex Institute (WIT) is a research and advanced training centre with an international reputation for excellence in engineering and physical sciences. It



SUSI 2025 is the 17th event in the successful series of International Conferences on Structures under Shock and Impact. The series started in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1989 and the most recent in-person meeting was held in Seville in 2018. The 16th event was organised online in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2022 SUSI was merged with two other structures-related conferences and this was also an online event.
The increasing need to protect civilian infrastructure and industrial facilities against unintentional loads arising from accidental impact and explosion events as well as terrorist attacks is reflected in the sustained interest in the SUSI meetings over three decades. While advances have been made over this period, many challenges remain, such as developing more effective and efficient blast and impact mitigation approaches than those that currently exist. The primary focus remains the survivability of physical facilities and the protection of people, as well as reducing economic losses and impact on the environment, with emphasis on innovative protective technologies to support the needs of an economically growing, modern society. The application of this technology ranges from the safe transportation of people and dangerous materials to defences against natural hazards such as floods, wind, storms, tsunamis and earthquakes.
Large scale testing is prohibitive and small scale laboratory testing results in scaling uncertainties. Continuing research is therefore essential to improve knowledge on how structures behave under a variety of load actions, some of which interact making it even more complex and difficult to define. Consequently, more use of advanced numerical simulations for load and structural response calculations is common practice in industry and academia. Such calculations can directly be used in design and risk assessment calculations, but also be applied to more simplified design tools and design codes. Whether numerical or analytical modelling techniques are employed, experimental validation is vital for there to be acceptance of the approach to be used.

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