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  1. Group of Structural Mechanics, School of Civil Engineering, Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña, Spain

    Jacobo Díaz

  2. SFI-CASA, Centre for Advanced Structural Analysis, Department of Structural Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway

    Miguel Costas

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  1. Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Chair of Engineering Mechanics, Institut, Magdeburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany

    Holm Altenbach

  2. Fakultät für Maschinenbau, Hochschule Esslingen, Esslingen am Neckar, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

    Andreas Öchsner

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  1. Institute for Infrastructure and Environment (IIE), School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

    F. Teixeira-Dias Ph.D

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Díaz, J., Costas, M. (2019). Crashworthiness. In: Altenbach, H., Öchsner, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Continuum Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53605-6_223-1

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