Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics

Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the first volume of six from the Conference, brings together 71 contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of Materials Science, including papers on Composite Materials, Dynamic Failure and Fracture, Dynamic Materials Response, Novel Testing Techniques, Low Impedance Materials, Metallic Materials, Response of Brittle Materials, Time Dependent Materials, High Strain Rate Testing of Biological and Soft Materials, Shock and High Pressure Response, Energetic Materials, Optical Techniques for Imaging High Strain Rate Material Response, and Modeling of Dynamic Response.

Table of Contents:
1 Dynamic Material Property Characterization With Kolsky Bars 2 Dynamic Triaxial Test on Sand 3 Mechanically Similar Gel Simulants for Brain Tissues 4 Loading Rate Effect on Tensile Failure Behavior of Gelatins Under Mode I 5 On Failure and Dynamic Performance of Materials 6 In-situ Optical Investigations of Hypervelocity Impact Induced Dynamic Fracture 7 A Dynamic CCNBD Method for Measuring Dynamic Fracture Parameters 8 New Fish Tank Approach to Evaluate Durability and Dynamic Failure of Marine Composites 9 Large Field Photogrammetry Techniques in Aircraft and Spacecraft Impact Testing 10 Properties of Elastomer-based Particulate Composites 11 Dynamic-tensile-extrusion Response of Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) and Polychlorotrifluoroethylene (PCTFE) 12 Dynamic Compression of an Interpenetrating Phase Composite (IPC) Foam: Measurements and Finite Element Modeling 13 Improved Mechanical Properties of Nano-nickel Strengthened Open Cell Metal Foams 14 A Numerical and Experimental Study of High Strain-rate Compression and Tension Response of Concrete 15 Impact Behavior and Dynamic Failure of PMMA and PC Plates 16 Experimental Investigation on Dynamic Crack Propagation Through Interface in Glass 17 Effect of Temperature and Crack Tip Velocity on the Crack Growth in Functionally Graded Materials 18 Characterization of Polymeric Foams Under Muli-axial Static and Dynamic Loading 19 Effects of Fiber Gripping Methods on Single Fiber Tensile Test Using Kolsky Bar 20 Mechanical Behavior of A265 Single Fibers 21 Experimental Study of Dynamic Behavior of Kevlar 49 Single Yarn 22 Dynamic Response of Fiber Bundle Under Transverse Impact 23 Impact Experiments to Validate Material Models for Kevlar KM2 Composite Laminates 24 Numerical Study of Composite Panels Subjected to Underwater Blasts 25 Non-shock Initiation Model for Explosive Families-Experimental Results 26 Modeling for Non-shock Initiation 27 Stress and Strain Analysis of Metal Plates With Holes 28 Impact Response of PC/PMMA Composites 29 Performance of Polymer-steel Bi-layers Under Blast 30 The Blast Response of Sandwich Composites With a Functionally Graded Core and Polyurea Interlayer 31 The Blast Response of Sandwich Composites With In-plane Pre-loading 32 Laboratory Blast Simulator for Composite Materials Characterization 33 Experimental Characterization of Composite Structures Subjected to Underwater Impulsive Loadings 34 Controlling Wave Propagation in Solids Using Spatially Variable Elastic Anisotropy 35 Constitutive Characterization of Multi-constituent Particulate Composite 36 Dynamic Strain Rate Response With Changing Temperatures for Wax-coated Granular Composites 37 Strain Solitary Waves in Polymeric Nanocomposites 38 Measurement of High-strain-rate Strength of a Metal-matrix Composite Conductor 39 A Revisit to High-rate Mode-II Fracture Characterization of Composites With Kolsky Bar Techniques 40 The Influences of Residual Stress in Epoxy Carbon-fiber Composite Under High Strain-rate 41 Strain Rate-dependent and Temperature- dependent Compressive Properties of 2DCf/SiC Composite 42 Compression Behavior of Near-UFG AZ31 Mg-Alloy at High Strain Rates 43 Dynamic Torsion Properties of Ultrafine Grained Aluminum 44 Effect of Aging Treatment on Dynamic Behavior of Mg-Gd-Y Alloy 45 Plasticity Under Pressure Using a Windowed Pressure-shear Impact Experiment 46 The Effect of Tungsten Additions on the Shock Response of Tantalum 47 Stress Perturbations Caused by Longitudinal Stress Gauges 48 Measuring Strength at Ultrahigh Strain Rates 49 Shear Stress Measurements in Stainless Steel 2169 Under 1D Shock Loading 50 Spall Strength of AS800 Silicon Nitride Under Combined Compression and Shear Impact Loading 51 Spallation of 1100-O Aluminum Under Plate Impact Loading 52 Line VISAR and Post-shot Metallography Comparisons for Spall Analysis 53 Failure of Firefighter Escape Rope Under Dynamic Loading and Elevated Temperatures 54 Determination of True Stress-true Strain Curves of Auto-body Plastics 55 Elasto-viscoplasticity Behavior of a Structural Adhesive Under Compression Loadings 56 Dynamic Behaviors of Fiber Reinforced Aerogel and Mg/Aerogel Composite 57 Mechanisms of Slip Weakening and Healing in Glass at Co-seismic Slip Rates 58 Rate Dependent Response and Failure of a Ductile Epoxy and Carbon Fiber Reinforced Epoxy Composite 59 High Pressure Hugoniot Measurements Using Converging Shocks 60 Photonic Doppler Velocimetry Measurements of Materials Under Dynamic Compression 61 Dynamic Equibiaxial Flexural Strength of Borosilicate Glass at High Temperatures 62 Measurement of Stresses and Strains in High Rate Triaxial Experiments 63 A New Technique for Combined Dynamic Compression-shear Test 64 A New Compression Intermediate Strain-Rate Testing Apparatus 65 A Modified Kolsky Bar System for Testing Ultra-soft Materials Under Intermediate Strain-Rates 66 Visualization and Measurements of Wave Propagations in Slurry Hammers 67 A Newly Developed Kolsky Tension Bar 68 Evaluation of Welded Tensile Specimens in the Hopkinson Bar 69 Effect of Aspect Ratio of Cylindrical Pulse Shapers on Force Equilibrium in Hopkinson Pressure Bar Experiments 70 Interferometric Measurement Techniques for Small Diameter Kolsky Bars 71 A Kolsky Bar With a Hollow Incident Tube.

About the Author :
Dr. Tom Proulx is the Executive Director of the Society for Experimental Mechanics, Inc.