摘要：Despite the non-contact underwater explosion phenomena(UNDEX)have been studied for decades and several numerical methods have been proposed in literature,its effects on military structures,especially composite ones,are even nowadays matter of *** early design phases,it is not always possible to verify the shock resistance of hull structures modelling the whole phenomenon,in which fluid,gas and solid properties must be properly set in a fully coupled fluid-structure interaction(fSI)numerical *** ones are extremely complex to set,computationally demanding and certainly not suitable for everyday design *** this paper,a simplified finite element(fE)model,easy to use in an early design phase,is ***,the structure and the fluid are *** this approximation,the fluid behaviour is simplified,using special finite elements,available in a commercial software *** choice reduces the computational time and numerical efforts avoiding the problem of combining computational fluid dynamics(CfD)and fE domains and equations in a fully coupled fluid-structure interaction model.A typical parallel body block of a minesweeper is modelled,using two-dimensional multi-layered shell elements to properly account for the composite materials *** the fluid instead,three dimensional volumetric elements,directly coupled to the structural elements,are *** addition,the same calculation is performed,modelling separately fluid in the CfD environment and structures in the finite element ***,realizing a fully coupled fluid-structure interaction *** results obtained by applying both numerical models are compared with the structural response measured on board of a composite ship during a full-scale shock *** simplified proposed procedure provides results in satisfactory agreement with experiments,allowing the validation of the *** are discussed and differences with the real phenomenon and fully coupled CfD+