Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 2017 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics

Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Volume 1 of the Proceedings of the 2017 SEM Annual Conference& Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the first volume of nine from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of Experimental Mechanics, including papers on: Quantitative Visualization Fracture & Fragmentation Dynamic Behavior of Low Impedance Materials Shock & Blast Dynamic Behavior of Composites Novel Testing Techniques Hybrid Experimental & Computational Methods Dynamic Behavior of Geo-materials General Material Behavior.

Table of Contents:
1 Effects of Adiabatic Heating Estimated from Tensile Tests with Continuous Heating 2 Effect of Pre-strain, Processing Conditions, and Impact Velocity on Energy Dissipation in Silicone Foams and Rubber 3 Strain Rate Sensitivity of Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability Experiments for Metal Strength 4 Impact Response of Density Graded Cellular Polymers 5 Dynamic Mixed-Mode Crack Initiation and Growth in PMMA and Polycarbonate 6 Dynamic Response of Alumina Ceramics Under Brazilian Disc Test Conditions 7 Digital Gradient Sensing Method to Visualize and Quantify Crack-Tip Deformations in Soda-Lime Glass Under Static and Dynamic Loading 8 Construction of Phase Diagrams of Mg-Zn with Selected Rare Earth (R.E) Elements 9 High Strain Rate Transverse Compression Response of Ballistic Single Fibers 10 WIAMan ATD Polymeric Material Characterization for Under-Body Blast Environment Simulation 11 Investigation of Transmission of a Shock Wave Through Thin Films 12 Experimental Testing and Computational Analysis of Viscoelastic Wave Propagation in Polymeric Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar 13 Mode I Rigid Double Cantilever Beam Test and Analysis Applied to Structural Adhesives 14 Brute Force Ceramic Constitutive Model Parameterization 15 High-Strain Rate Compressive Behavior of a “Natural Soil” Under Uniaxial Strain State 16 Latest Results for Elasto-Plastic Identification at High Rates Using Inertial Impact 17 Mesoscale Modeling of Porous Materials Using New Methodology for Fracture and Frictional Contact in the Material Point Method 18 Underwater Blast Response of Weathered Carbon Composite Plates 19 Characterization of a Visco-Hyperelastic Synthetic Gel for Ballistic Impacts Assessment 20 On the Microstructural Aspects of Shock Induced Failure in Magnesium Alloys 21 High Speed Imaging Techniques to Study Effects of Pressure Waves from Detonating Explosive Charges on Biological Materials 22 Computational Study on the Driver Section Design of an Explosively Driven Conical Shock Tube 23 Unidirectional Carbon-Epoxy Composite Plates Subjected to Extreme Marine Environment 24 Hybrid Computational and Experimental Approach to Identify the Dynamic Initiation Fracture Toughness at High Loading Rate 25 High-Rate Mechanical Response of Aluminum Using Miniature Kolsky Bar Techniques Daniel T. Casem, Jonathan P. Ligda, Brian E. Schuster, and Shane Mims 26 Application of 3D Digital Image Correlation In Ballistic Testing 27 Compaction Wave Propagation Characteristics in Polymer Bonded Explosives at Macro-Meso Scale 28 Direct Compression Loading Using the Pre-stretched Bar Technique: Application to High Strains Under Moderate Strain Rates 29 Compaction Wave Characteristics of Polymeric Foams Under Dynamic Loading 30 Comparison of Numerical Simulations with Experiments of Blast-Induced Pressure Wave Impact on a Surrogate Head Model 31 Pressure Sensing in Clay: A New Metric for Characterizing the Ballistic Backface Deformation Response of Personnel Protection Equipment 32 Evaluation of Concrete Penetration Resistance Using Small Caliber Bullets 33 Dynamic Analysis of a Bi-stable Buckled Structure for Vibration Energy Harvester 34 Effects of Strain Rate on Mechanical Properties and Fracture Mechanisms in a Dual Phase Steel 35 Nonlinear and Inertant Acoustic Metamaterials and Their Device Implications 36 Evaluation of Stress Equilibrium in Dynamic Tests on Agglomerated Cork 37 High Strain Rate Induced Phase Transition of Polymer.

About the Author :
Jamie Kimberley, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, USA. Leslie Lamberson, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA. Steven Mates, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA.