This book primarily focuses on methodologies to enable marine structures
to resist high velocity impact loadings. It is based on invited talks
presented at the recent India-USA workshop on "Recent Advances in Blast
Mitigation Strategies in Civil and Marine Composite Structures" The book
comprises content from top researchers from India and the USA and covers
various aspects of the topic, including modeling and simulation, design
aspects, experimentation and various challenges. These failure modes
significantly reduce the structural integrity of the marine structures
unless they are designed to resist such harsh loadings. Understanding
the mechanics of these structures under harsh loadings is still an open
area of research, and the behavior of these structures is not fully
understood. The book highlights efforts to reduce the effects of blast
loadings on marine composite structures. Intended for
researchers/scientists and practicing engineers, the book focuses not
only the design and analysis challenges of marine composite structures
under such harsh loading conditions, but also provides new design
guidelines.