Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Volume 1

Chap1. Effects of Adiabatic Heating Estimated from Tensile Tests with Continuous Heating.- Chap2. Effect of Pre-Strain, Processing Conditions, and Impact Velocity on Energy Dissipation in Silicone Foams and Rubber.- Chap3. Strain Rate Sensitivity of Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability Experiments for Metal Strength.- Chap4. Impact Response of Density Graded Cellular Polymers.- Chap5. Dynamic Mixed-mode Crack Initiation and Growth in PMMA and Polycarbonate.- Chap6. Dynamic Reponse of Alumina Ceramics under Brazilian Disc Test Conditions.- Chap7. Digital Gradient Sensing Method to Visualize and Quantify Crack-tip Deformations in Soda-lime Glass under Static and Dynamic Loading.- Chap8. Construction of Phase Diagrams of Mg-Zn with Selected Rare Earth (R.E) Elements.- Chap9. High Strain Rate Transverse Compression Response of Ballistic Single Fibers.- Chap10. WIAMan ATD Polymeric Material Characterization for Under-Body Blast Environment Simulation.- Chap11. Investigation of Transmission of a Shock Wave through Thin Films.- Chap12. Experimental Testing and Computational Analysis of Viscoelastic Wave Propagation in Polymeric Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar.- Chap13. Mode I Rigid Double Cantilever Beam Test and Analysis Applied to Structural Adhesives.- Chap14. Brute Force Ceramic Constitutive Model Parameterization.- Chap15. High-Strain Rate Compressive Behavior of a "Natural Soil" Under Uniaxial Strain State.- Chap16. Latest Results for Elasto-plastic Identification at High Rates using Inertial Impact.- Chap17. Mesoscale Modeling of Porous Materials Using New Methodology for Fracture and Frictional Contact in the Material Point Method.- Chap18. Underwater Blast Response of Weathered Carbon Composite Plates.- Chap19. Characterization of a Visco-hyperelastic Synthetic gel for Ballistic Impacts Assessment.- Chap20. On the Microstructural Aspects of Shock Induced Failure in Magnesium Alloys.- Chap21. High Speed Imaging Techniques To Study Effects of Pressure Waves From Detonating Explosive Charges on Biological Tissues.- Chap22. Computational Study on the Driver Section Design of an Explosively-Driven Conical Shock Tube.- Chap23. Unidirectional Carbon-Epoxy Composite Plates Subjected to Extreme Marine Environments.- Chap24. Hybrid Computational and Experimental Approach to Identify the Dynamic Initiation Fracture Toughness at High Strain Rate.- Chap25. High-rate Mechanical Response of Aluminum using Miniature Kolsky Bar Techniques.- Chap26. Time-Resolved Penetration of Metal Alloys During Ballistic Impacts.- Chap27. Compaction Wave Propagation Characteristics in Polymer Bonded Explosives at Macro-Meso Scale.- Chap28. Direct Compression Loading Using the Pre-Stretched Bar Technique - Application to High Strains under Moderate Strain Rates.- Chap29. Compaction Wave Characteristics of Polymeric Foams under Dynamic Loading.- Chap30. Comparison of Numerical Simulations with Experiments of Blast-induced Pressure Wave Impact on a Surrogate Head Model.- Chap31. PressureSensing in Clay: a New Metric for Characterizing the Ballistic Backface Deformation Response of Personnel Protection Equipment.- Chap32. Evaluation of Concrete Penetration Resistance Using Small Caliber Bullets.- Chap33. Dynamic Analysis of a Bi-Stable Buckled Structure for Vibration Energy Harvester.- Chap34. Effects of Strain Rate on Mechanical Properties and Fracture Mechanisms in a Dual Phase Steel.- Chap35. Nonlinear and Inertant Acoustic Metamaterials and their Device Implications.- Chap36. Evaluation of Stress Equilibrium in Dynamic Tests on Agglomerated Cork.- Chap37. High Strain Rate Induced Phase Transition of Polymer.