The objective of the course is to teach the principles of energy absorption of materials and structures with emphasis on the underlying theory, assumptions, and modelling issues as well as providing detailed knowledge to engineers.

Applications of energy absorbing of materials and structures, design and selection of energy absorbing materials and structures, behavior of materials under static and dynamic loadings, experimental techniques, axial crushing of thin walled structures, impact on structures and inertial effects, cellular materials, composite materials, finite element simulations of impact/crushing