Fracture, Fatigue, Failure and Damage Evolution, Volume 8

1 Fatigue Damage Precursor Identification Using Nondestructive Evaluation Coupled with Electron Microscopy.- 2 Experimental Fracture Analysis of Tropical Species Using the Grid Method.- 3 Investigating the Effective Fracture Toughness of Heterogeneous Materials.- 4 Improved Hybrid Specimen for Vibration Bending Fatigue.- 5 Experimental Study of Residual Plastic Strain and Damages Development in Carbon Fiber Composite.- 6 Experimental Investigation of Strength of Curved Beam by Thin Ply Non Crimp Fabric Laminates.- 7 Role of Laminate Thickness on Sequential Dynamic Delamination of Curved [90/0] CFRP Composite Laminates.- 8 Application of eMMC Model to Fracture of Metal Sheets.- 9 Hydrolytic Degradation and its Effect on Mechanical Properties of HFPE II 52 Polyimide Preliminary Results.- 10 Mixed Mode and Mode II Fatigue Crack Growth in Woven Composites.- 11 Characterization of Fatigue Induced Damage Evolution in CFRPs Using DIC.- 12 Damage Characterization for Electronic ComponentsUnder Impact Loading.- 13 Dynamic Mode II Delamination in Through Thickness Reinforced Composites.- 14 Measurement of Bond Line Fracture Toughness in Adhesively Bonded Composite Structures by Nanoindentation.- 15 Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Novel Crack Stopper Concepts for Lightweight Foam Cored Sandwich Structures.- 16 Probabilistic Improvement of Crack Propagation Monitoring by Using Acoustic Emission.- 17 Failure Detection of Temporary Structures with Digital Image Correlation for Construction Safety Applications.- 18 Using Digital Image Correlation to Detect Cracking in Opalinus Shale.- 19 Early Detection Of Damage Mechanisms In Composites During Fatigue Tests.- 20 Implementing Noise Multi Frequency Stimulus and Realtime Analysis with Nonlinear Model Tracking.

Alan Zehnder - Cornell University, USA; Jay Carroll-Sandia National Laboratories, USA; Kavan K. Hazeli- John's Hopkins University, USA; Ryan B. Berke-University of Illinois, USA; Garrett J. Pataky-Clemson University, USA; Matthew Cavalli- University of North Dakota, USA; Allison M. Beese - Pennsylvania State University, USA; Shuman Xia - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA