Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Volume 1

Dynamic Forces in Fire Service Escape Scenarios.- Tensile Behavior of Kevlar 49 Woven Fabrics Over a Wide Range of Strain Rates.- The Effect of Loading Rate on the Tensile Behavior of Single Zylon Fiber.- Statistical Analysis of Fiber Gripping Effects on Kolsky bar Test.- Perpendicular Yarn Pull-out Behavior Under Dynamic Loading.- Dynamic Response of Homogeneous and Functionally Graded Foams When Subjected to Transient Loading by a Square Punch.- Dynamic Strain Measurement of Welded Tensile Specimens Using Digital Image Correlation.- Ultra High Speed Full-field Strain Measurements on Spalling Tests on Concrete Materials.- Contact Mechanics of Impacting Slender Rods: Measurement and Analysis.- Solenoid Actuated, Rail Mounted, Aircraft Payload Release Mechanisms.- Finite Element Modeling of Ballistic Impact on Kevlar 49 Fabrics.- Optimal Pulse Shapes for SHPB Tests on Soft Materials.- Dynamic Tensile Characterization of Foam Materials.- On Measuring the High Frequency Response of Soft Viscoelastic Materials at Finite Strains.- The Blast Response of Sandwich Composites With a Graded Core: Equivalent Core Layer Mass vs. Equivalent Core Layer Thickness.- Effects of High and Low Temperature on the Dynamic Performance of the Core Material, Face-sheets and the Sandwich Composite.- Influence of Texture and Temperature on the Dynamic-tensile-extrusion Response of High-purity Zirconium.- Modeling and DIC Measurements of Dynamic Compression Tests of a Soft Tissue Simulant.- Measurement of R-values at Intermediate Strain Rates Using a Digital Speckle Extensometry.- Study of Strain Energy in Deformed Insect Wings.- Experimental Study of Cable Vibration Damping.- Dynamic Thermo-mechanical Response of Austenite Containing Steels.- Investigation into the Spall Strength of Cast Iron.- Development of Brick and Mortar Material Parameters for Numerical Simulations.- Electrical Behavior of Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Epoxy Under Compression.- Effect of Curvature on Shock Loading Response of Aluminum Panels.- Deformation Measurements and Simulations of Blast Loaded Plates.- The Blast Response of Sandwich Composites With Bi-axial In-plane Compressive Loading.- Dynamic Response of Porcine Articular Cartilage and Meniscus under Shock Loading.- Dynamic Response of Beams Under Transverse Impact Loadings.- Constitutive Model Parameter Study for Armor Steel and Tungsten Alloys.- A Scaled Model Describing the Rate-dependent Compressive Failure of Brittle Materials.- Experimental Verification of Negative Phase Velocity in Layered Media.- Gas Gun Impact Analysis on Adhesives in Sandwich Composite Panels.- Damage Analysis of Projectile Impacted Laminar Composites.- Rate Sensitivity in Pure Ni Under Dynamic Compression.- Effect of Aging Treatment on Dynamic Behavior of Mg-Gd-Y Alloy.- Temperature Effect on Drop-weight Impact of Woven Composites.- Dynamic Mode-II Characterization of a Woven Glass Composite.- Rate Dependent Material Properties of an OFHC Copper Film.- Zirconium: Probing the Role of Texture Using Dynamic-tensile-extrusion