Fracture, Fatigue, Failure and Damage Evolution, Volume 8: Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Reflection-Mode Digital Gradient Sensing Technique for Experimental Fracture Mechanics....Pages 1-7
Experimental and Computational Investigation of Out-of-Plane Low Velocity Impact Behavior of CFRP Composite Plates....Pages 9-16
Prediction of Incipient Nano-Scale Rupture for Thermosets in Plane Stress....Pages 17-25
Effect of Degree of Cure on Damage Development in FRP....Pages 27-33
Stochastic Discrete Damage Simulations of Laminate Composites....Pages 35-43
Development of a Specimen for In-Situ Diffraction Planar Biaxial Experiments....Pages 45-50
V-Notched Rail Test for Shear-Dominated Deformation of Ti-6Al-4V....Pages 51-60
A Statistical/Computational/Experimental Approach to Study the Microstructural Morphology of Damage....Pages 61-65
Prediction of Ductile Fracture Through Small-Size Notched Tensile Specimens....Pages 67-72
Development of a Generalized Entropic Framework for Damage Assessment....Pages 73-81
Modelling of Experimental Observations of Electrical Response of CNT Composites....Pages 83-87
Effect of Micro-Cracks on the Thermal Conductivity of Particulate Nanocomposite....Pages 89-94
Fatigue Tests on Fiber Coated Titanium Implant–Bone Cement Interfaces....Pages 95-103
Fatigue Behavior of Carburized Steel at Long Lives....Pages 105-114
Fatigue Behavior of Fluid End Crossbore Using a Coupon-Based Approach....Pages 115-123
Notch Strain Analysis of Crossbore Geometry....Pages 125-133
Opto-acoustic and Neutron Emissions from Fracture and Earthquakes....Pages 135-140
Field Theoretical Description of Shear Bands....Pages 141-149
Measuring the Effective Fracture Toughness of Heterogeneous Materials....Pages 151-155
Local Strain Analysis of Nitinol During Cyclic Loading....Pages 157-164
Environmental Protection by the Opto-acoustic and Neutron Emission Seismic Precursors....Pages 165-173
Neutron Emissions from Hydrodynamic Cavitation....Pages 175-182
From Dark Matter to Brittle Fracture....Pages 183-186
Compositional Variations in Palladium Electrodes Exposed to Electrolysis....Pages 187-195
Strain-Rate-Dependent Yield Criteria for Composite Laminates....Pages 197-208
Experimental Fatigue Specimen and Finite Element Analysis for Characterization of Dental Composites....Pages 209-212
Fracture Toughness and Impact Damage Resistance of Nanoreinforced Carbon/Epoxy Composites....Pages 213-224
Compression Testing of Micro-Scale Unidirectional Polymer Matrix Composites....Pages 225-233
Crack Analysis of Wood Under Climate Variations....Pages 235-242
Numerical Fracture Analysis Under Temperature Variation by Energetic Method....Pages 243-251
Use of a Multiplexed Photonic Doppler Velocimetry (MPDV) System to Study Plastic Deformation of Metallic Steel Plates in High Velocity Impact....Pages 253-260
In-service Preload Monitoring of Bolted Joints Subjected to Fatigue Loading Using a Novel ‘MoniTorque’ Bolt....Pages 261-267
Fatigue Behavior of Novel Hybrid Fastening System with Adhesive Inserts....Pages 269-276