ABSTRACT
In Chapter 9 the principles of using pressure-impulse (P-1) or iso-damage curves as a means of assessing the response of a range of targets were discussed. In this chapter the technique will be extended to consider the behaviour of specific structural elements by considering their response to quasi-static and impulsive loading (which can lead to the development of P-1 diagrams). However, it will be seen that having developed such curves an even more convenient representation of response can be derived by converting these distributed mass, flexible systems to more tractable, equivalent, single degree of freedom (SOOF) structures by the evaluation of load and mass factors.
