RETRACTED: Response of ship hull laminated plates to close proximity blast loads

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).This article has been retracted at the request of The Editor-in-Chief.It has come to our attention that there is very substantial duplication of text and content between this Computational Materials Science article and an earlier paper by the same authors in “Advances in Marine Structures“, Edited by W . Fricke, CRC Press 2011, page 343, Print ISBN: 978-0-415-67771-4 and eBook ISBN: 978-0-203-80811-5. One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that their work is original and has not appeared in a publication elsewhere. Re-use of any data should be appropriately cited. As such this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process.