Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit an abstract for the ‘Shock & Blast’ session under Track 1: Dynamic Behavior of Materials. This symposium is part of the 2021 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics (Virtual or Albuquerque, NM, USA, June 14-17, 2021).

The ‘Shock & Blast’ session is intended to provide a forum to present and discuss recent developments in experimental methods, analysis and high-rate response of materials and structures subjected to shock or blast loading. All types of materials and structures are of interest (metals, ceramics, glass, composites, foams, sandwich, concrete, biological tissues, etc.).

Please submit a short abstract (200 words or less) by the deadline, November 9, 2020 at https://sem.org/annualauthor (click “Upload/Edit Submission” button). Please indicate the session organizer by entering either of the organizers’ “Last Name, First Name” in your submission to ensure inclusion in the right track.

Additional information can be found at: https://sem.org/annual

Sincerely,

Session Organizers

Behrad Koohbor, Rowan University (koohbor@rowan.edu)

Suraj Ravindran, California Institute of Technology (surajrav@caltech.edu)

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