This book contains 12 chapters which were presented as invited lectures at the Third International Symposium on Structural Crashworthiness held at the University of Liverpool, England, 14-16 April, 1993. This symposium was a logical continuation and extension of two previous Symposia held in 1983 and 1988, organized in order to examine recent developments in structural crashworthiness and failure. Particular emphasis has been given in this book to the failure predictions for ductile metal structures under large dynamic loads and to the behaviour of composite and cellular structures. Thus, it...