Aircraft Impact Damage - MIT（飞机撞击破坏麻省理工学院）.pdf

Aircraft Impact Damage Tomasz Wierzbicki Professor of Applied Mechanics, MIT Liang Xue Ph.D. Candidate of Ocean Engineering, MIT Meg Hendry-Brogan Undergraduate student of Ocean Engineering, MIT Abstract th The “post-September 11 ” structural engineer, while feeling the remorse and confusion that every other American has dealt with, is also privileged with the immense education an analysis of the WTC collapse can provide. A newly found understanding for impact dynamics and failure of very large systems, as well as a com