The team Crash, Comfort and Safety - Laboratory of Industrial and Human Automation control, Mechanical engineering and Computer science (LAMIH CNRS) at the University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambrésis (UVHC) - will host the 3rd International Conference on Impact Loading of Lightweight Structures. The conference is a continuation of the conferences held in Florianapolis in Brazil in 2005 and in Trondheim in Norway in 2008.