Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Volume 1

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

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