Dr. ​Steven Mates is with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA. Dr. Veronica Eliasson is with the Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA

• Chapter 1. Crack Branching in Soda-Lime Glass: Optical Measurement of Precursors using Digital Gradient Sensing.- Chapter 2. Investigation of the Discrepancy between Contact Force and Measured Force in a Hopkinson Tube.- Chapter 3. Evaluation of Constitutive Behavior of Aluminium Alloy AA6063-T6.- Chapter 4. Effect of Equal Energy Impact on CFRP in Arctic Conditions.- Chapter 5. Kolsky Bar Tensile Gripping Methods for Structural Adhesives.- Chapter 6. An Initial Study of Ultraordnance Impact Experiments on Concrete.- Chapter 7. Dynamic Damage Evolution in Shale in the Presence of Pre-existing Microcracks.- Chapter 8. Probing Inertial Cavitation Damage in Viscoelastic Hydrogels Using Dynamic Bubble Pairs.- Chapter 9. A Simple Data-Rich IBII Test for Identifying all Orthotropic Stiffness Components at High Strain Rates.- Chapter 10. Comparison of the High Strain Rate Response of Boron/Silicon Carbide and MAX Phase Ceramics using the Image-Based Inertial Impact Test.- Chapter 11. High-Rate Indentation using Miniature Kolsky Bar Methods.- Chapter 12. Ultrasonic Guided Waves Generated by Parametrized Novel Mini Impactors with Application to Composite Structures.- Chapter 13. Effect of Impact Velocity on Dynamic Response of Polymeric Foams.- Chapter 14. The Form and Function of the Kolsky Bar for Dynamic Three-Point Bending.- Chapter 15. Additional Study of the Explosively Driven Expanding Ring Tension Test.- Chapter 16. Ballistic Performance Evaluation of Carbon Graphite Foam (CGF) And Nanoparticle-Kevlar (SNK) Composites Using Compressed-Air Guns.- Chapter 17. Shear Damage Model Identification for Off-axis IBII Composites Specimen Loaded and Unloaded at High Strain Rates.