Predictive Modeling of Dynamic Processes provides an overview of hydrocode technology, applicable to a variety of industries and areas of engineering design. Covering automotive crash, blast impact, and hypervelocity impact phenomena, this volume offers readers an in-depth explanation of the fundamental code components. Chapters include informative introductions to each topic, and explain the specific requirements pertaining to each predictive hydrocode.

Provides an overview of a variety of crash and impact simulations

I Simulation of Automotive Crash Processes.- Simulation of Recoverable Foams under Impact Loading.- The Numerical Simulation of Foam #x2013; An Example of Inter-Industrial Synergy.- Influence of Hardening Relations on Forming Limit Curves Predicted by the Theory of Marciniak, Kuczy#x0144;ski, and Pokora.- The Challenge to Predict Material Failure in Crashworthiness Applications: Simulation of Producibility to Serviceability.- Cohesive Zone Modeling for Adhesives.- Modeling the Plasticity of Various Material Classes with a Single Quadratic Yield Function.- On the Computation of a Generalised Dynamic J-Integral and its Application to the Durability of Steel Structures.- II Numerical Modeling of Blast and Impact Phenomena.- The MAX-Analysis: New Computational and Post-Processing Procedures for Vehicle Safety Analysis.- 10 Years RHT: A Review of Concrete Modelling and Hydrocode Applications.- Numerical Simulations of the Penetration of Glass Using Two Pressure-Dependent Constitutive Models.- On the main mechanisms in ballistic perforation of steel plates at sub-ordnance impact velocities.- Dimensioning of concrete walls against small calibre impact including models for deformable penetrators and the scattering of experimental results.- Numerical Analysis of Fluiddynamic Instabilities and Pressure Fluctuations in the Near Field of a Detonation.- Numerical Simulation of Muzzle Exit and Separation Process for Sabot#x2013;Guided Projectiles at M #x003E; 1.- Numerical Analysis of the Supercavitating Flow about blunt Bodies.- Numerical Analysis Method for the RC Structures Subjected to Aircraft Impact and HE Detonation.- Groundshock Displacements#x2013;Experiment and Simulation.- III Numerical Simulation of Hypervelocity Impact Effects.- Hypervelocity Impact Induced ShockWaves and Related Equations of State.- Artificial Viscosity Methods forModelling Shock Wave Propagation.- Review of Development of the Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) Method.- Assessing the Resiliency of Composite Structural Systems and Materials Used in Earth-Orbiting Spacecraft to Hypervelocity Projectile Impact.- Numerical Simulation in Micrometeoroid and Orbital Debris Risk Assessment.- Numerical Modeling of Crater Formation by Meteorite Impact and Nuclear Explosion.