Recent Advances in Experimental Mechanics: In Honor of Isaac M. Daniel

Front Matter....Pages i-xlvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Hopkinson Techniques for Dynamic Triaxial Compression Tests....Pages 3-12
Asymptotic Scaling of Gradient Theory of Micro-scale Plasticity of Metals....Pages 13-18
The Role of Pressure in the Behavior of Time-dependent Materials....Pages 19-30
High Strain Rate Testing of Sandwich Core Materials....Pages 31-42
Development of a Shear Test for Low Modulus Foam Materials....Pages 43-54
Indentation of a PVC Cellular Foam....Pages 55-64
Nanomanipulation and Characterization of Individual Carbon Nanotubes....Pages 65-74
Quasi-static and Dynamic Torsion Testing of Ceramic Micro and Nano-structured Coatings Using Speckle Photography....Pages 75-84
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Measured Response: State Variables for Composite Materials....Pages 87-98
On the Modeling of the Mechanical Properties of Composite Materials at High Strain Rates....Pages 99-108
Damage Quantification in Metal Matrix Composites....Pages 109-120
Study of Damage in Particulate Composites....Pages 121-132
Hygric Characterization of Composite Laminates....Pages 133-144
Pneumatic Behavior of Composite Materials....Pages 145-152
The Effect of Specimen Size on the Compressive Strength of Carbon Fibre-epoxy Laminates....Pages 153-162
Interfacial Strength and Toughness Characterization Using a Novel Test Specimen....Pages 163-174
A Model for the Accurate Prediction of the Residual Strength after Damage Due to Impact and Erosion of FRPs....Pages 175-184
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
The Origin and Inception of Fatigue in Steel — A Probabilistic Model....Pages 187-196
Fatigue Damage Tolerant Analysis Using the Fatigue Damage Map....Pages 197-208
Crack Growth Behavior and SIF’s as Observed by Optical Methods....Pages 209-216
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
A Model for Failure Initiation in Ductile Materials....Pages 217-224
Crack Paths in Adhesive Bonds....Pages 225-234
Experimental Determination of Fracture Parameters for Predicting Crack Growth in Viscoelastic Polymers....Pages 235-244
Failure of Spot Weld: A Competition between Crack Mechanics and Plastic Collapse....Pages 245-256
Investigating the Effects of Specimen Thickness and Pressure on the Crack Growth Behavior of a Particulate Composite Material....Pages 257-266
Dynamic Fracture Experiments Using Point Impact....Pages 267-274
Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Shear-dominated Intersonic Crack Growth and Friction in Unidirectional Composites....Pages 275-288
Front Matter....Pages 289-289
Moiré Interferometry—Past, Present and Future....Pages 291-302
Optical Fibre Bragg Grating Sensors in Experimental Mechanics of Composite Laminated Plates....Pages 303-314
Optoelectronic Displacement Measurement Method for Rotating Disks....Pages 315-324
Deformation Measurement of Sheet Metal Forming Using Photogrammetry....Pages 325-334
Fracture Processes of Quasi-brittle Materials Studied with Digital Image Correlation....Pages 335-344
On the Use of Different Wavelengths to Digitally Determine the Isochromatic Fringe Order....Pages 345-352
The Application of Speckle Metrology to Heart Mechanics....Pages 353-364
Front Matter....Pages 365-365
Line Focus Acoustic Microscopy for Thin-film Measurements....Pages 367-380
Recent Advances in Acoustography-based NDE....Pages 381-388
Experimental Limitations to Guided Wave Generation in Elastic Materials....Pages 389-396
Nondestructive Testing Using Shearography....Pages 397-408
Theoretical and Experimental Study of Laser-ultrasonic Signal Characteristics Enhanced by Wetting the Surface....Pages 409-420
Defect Detection by the Scattering Analysis of Flexural Waves....Pages 421-432
Front Matter....Pages 365-365
Evaluation of Fiber Waviness in Thick Composites by Ultrasonic Test....Pages 433-442
Development of a Dry-contact Ultrasonic Technique and Its Application to NDE of IC Packages....Pages 443-454
Front Matter....Pages 455-455
High-resolution Neutron Diffraction Techniques for Strain Scanning....Pages 457-466
Draft Standard for the Measurement of Residual Stresses by Neutron Diffraction....Pages 467-476
Microstresses Determined by Neutron Diffraction and Self-consistent Model....Pages 477-486
Residual Stress Measurements at the Metal/Ceramic Interface Using Modelling of Neutron Diffraction Spectrometer....Pages 487-494
Elastoplastic Deformation of Two Phase Steels Studied by Neutron Diffraction and Self-consistent Modelling....Pages 495-506
Residual Stresses and Elastic Constants in Thermal Deposits....Pages 507-514
Neutron Diffraction Assisted Residual Stress Analysis in Welded Structures....Pages 515-526
Synchrotron Radiation in-Situ Analyses of AA 6061+Al 2 O 3 during Tensile Deformation at Ambient and Elevated Temperature....Pages 527-534
Front Matter....Pages 535-535
Reflections on the Importance of Experimental Results to All Mechanicists, Especially Theoreticians....Pages 537-550
Mixed Numerical-experimental Techniques: Past, Present and Future....Pages 551-560
A Moiré-FE Method for Internal CTOA Determination....Pages 561-570
Patterns of Modern Experimental Mechanics....Pages 571-584
Inverse Methods in Experimental Mechanics....Pages 585-594
Complex Stiffness Identification by Inverse Methods....Pages 595-608
Considerations of a Flutter Prediction Methodology Using a Combined Analytical-experimental Procedure....Pages 609-618
Displacement-based Smoothing Hybrid Finite-element Representation for Stress Analyzing Perforated Composites....Pages 619-628
Front Matter....Pages 629-629
Future Experimental Methods Needed to Verify Composite Life-cycle Simulations....Pages 631-644
Experimental Observations on the Delamination Behavior in Composite Structures....Pages 645-660
Front Matter....Pages 629-629
Direct Identification of Elastic Properties of Composite Structures — A Wave-controlled Impact Approach....Pages 661-670
Static Behaviour of Pre-stressed Polymer Composite Sandwich Beams....Pages 671-682
On Debond Failure of Foam Core Sandwich....Pages 683-688
Core Crush Mechanisms and Solutions in the Manufacturing of Sandwich Structures....Pages 689-700
Displacement Fields Around a Circular Hole in Composite Laminates....Pages 701-712
Front Matter....Pages 713-713
Recent Advances in Long-term Monitoring of Bridges....Pages 715-726
An Experimental Mechanics Approach to Structural Health Monitoring for Civil Aircraft....Pages 727-736
Smart Structures Application to Airworthiness and Repair....Pages 737-748
Experimental Investigation of Shrinkage Strains in Multilayered Stereolithography Parts....Pages 749-756
Suppression of Dimpling in Sheet Metal Parts Formed on Discrete Tooling....Pages 757-768
Effect of Loading Rate and Geometry Variation on the Dynamic Shear Strength of Adhesive Lap Joints....Pages 769-780
Back Matter....Pages 781-798