Experimental Analysis of Nano and Engineering Materials and Structures

Editor's Preface; Organizing Committees; ICEM13 TRACKS; ICEM13 SPECIAL SYMPOSIA/SESSIONS; A. INVITED PAPERS: Modern Photoelasticity for Residual Stress Measurement in Glass, by Hillar Aben, Johan Anton and Andrei Errapart; Thermoelastic Stress Analysis of Vascular Devices, by J.M. Dulieu-Barton, J. Eaton-Evans, E.G. Little and I.A. Brown; Micro/Nano Speckle Method with Applications to Material, Tissue Engineering and Heart Mechanics, by Fu-Pen Chiang; In-Situ Electron Microscopy Testing of Nanostructures, by Horacio D. Espinosa; Air Blast Loading of Cellular Media, by George A. Gazonas and Joseph A. Main; Importance of Full-Field Measurement Techniques for Better Models in Solid Mechanics, by Michel Grediac; Recent Developments and Applications of Photomechanics Methods for Microelectronics Product Development, by Bongtae Han; A Tentative Analysis of the Status of Speckle Interferometry in Experimental Mechanics, by Pierre Jacquot; On the Characterisation of Cellular Materials Used in Sandwich Construction, by R.A.W. Mines; Three-Dimensional Displacement Analysis by Windowed Phase-Shifting Digital Holographic Interferometry, by Yoshiharu Morimoto, Toru Matui and Motoharu Fujigaki; ONR Solid Mechanics Research Program Overview, by Yapa D. S. Rajapaks; Large-Deformation Constitutive Theories for Structural Composites: Rate Dependent Concepts and Effect of Microstructure, by Kenneth Rezfsnider and Liqun Xing; Experimental Mechanics at the Nanometric Level, by Cesar A. Sciammarella; Mechanical Property Measurement at the Micro/Nano Scale, by W.N. Sharpe, Jr; Characterisation and Assessment of Failure and Fatigue Phenomena in Sandwich Structures Induced by Localized Effects, by Ole Thybo Thomsen B. TRACKS: 1T3. Nanocomposites; 1T6. Nanostuctured Materials; 1T7. Thin Films;2T3. Applications; 2T4. Applied Photoelasticity; 2T6. Composite Materials; 2T7. Damage Assessment; 2T8. Dynamic Systems; 2T9. Fiber Optic Sensors; 2T10. Fracture and Fatigue; 2T11. HybridTechniques; 2T12. Impact Mechanics; 2T13. Inverse Problems; 2T17. Numerical Solutions; 2T18. Optical Methods; 2T19. Research in Progress; 2T20. Smart Materials and Structures; 2T21. Speckle Interferometry; 2T24. Structural Integrity and Health Monitoring; 2T26. Thermal Problems; 2T27. Time Dependent Materials; 2T28. Transducers and Sensors; C. SPECIAL SYMPOSIA/SESSIONS : 2. Experimental Characterization and Multiscale Modeling of Building Materials; 3. Experimental Analysis of Mechanical Properties in Advanced Materials; 4. Plasticity, Fracture and Fatigue at the Micro and Nano Scales; 5. Mission Synthesis; 6. Optical Methods for 3-D Displacement Field Measurement; 7. Fracture and Fatigue of Piezoelectric Ceramics; 8. Digital Holography; 9. Mechanics of MEMS; 10. Measurement of Residual Stress and Strain in Composite Processing and Service Life; 12. Time-Dependent Behavior; 14. Photoelasticity and its Applications; 15. Identification of Mechanical Constitutive Equations; 16. Impact Behaviour of Composite Materials and Structures; 17. Fiber Reinforced Polymer Application; 18. Advances in Speckle Interferometry; 19. Mechanical and Thermomechanical Properties of Smart Materials and Structures; 22. Sandwich Structures and Core Materials; 24. Experimental Buckling and Postbuckling of Lightweight Structures; 25. Impact/Crash and Other Dynamic Test Applications for Metalllc Materials ; 26. Application of Joining Techniques for Industrial Materials; 27. Bio-compatible and Bio-Composite Materials; 29. Transport Phenomena in Experimental Mechanics; 31. Thermal Methods for Stress and Damage Analysis; 32. Novel Applications of Experimental Mechanics; 33. Modern Practice in Acoustic Emission; 35. Biaxial Testing; 36. Residual Stress Measurements by Hole Drilling Techniques; 37. Mechanical Behaviour and Failure of Natural Bulding Stones.