Challenges in Mechanics of Time Dependent Materials, Fracture, Fatigue, Failure and Damage Evolution

1. Dynamic Analysis of Vehicle Performance for Changes to Rear Axle Housing 2. A Comparative Study of Crack Branching In Glass Using Photoelasticity, Digital Image Correlation and Digital Gradient Sensing Techniques 3. Hand-Transmitted Vibration with Simple Solution Starting by Weed Walker 4. Effect of Loading Rate on Fracture Behavior of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites 5. Experimental Measurements of Overload and Underloads On Fatigue Crack Growth Using Digital Image Correlation 6. Exploring Microstructural Descriptors in Elastomeric Foams Using Digital Image Correlation and Statistical Analysis 7. Effect of Crystallization on Mechanical Properties of CFRTP 8. Mode I Traction-Separation Relationship of Sylgard 184 - Aluminum Interface Using Rigid Double Cantilever Beam Analysis 9. Solid Cylindrical Bar Torsion for Characterizing Shear Plastic Deformation and Failure 10. Mixed Mode (Mode I/III) Dynamic Fracture Initiation Toughness of Aluminum Alloy 11. Incremental 1D Viscoelastic Model for Residual Stress and Shape Distortion Analysis During Composite Manufacturing Processes 12. Investigating How Microstructural Features Influence Stress Intensities in Pitting Corrosion 13. Evaluating the Influence of Size Effects on Load-Displacement Behavior and Failure in Threaded Fasteners, Part I: Experimental Testing 14. Investigation of Dynamic Fracture Behavior of Additively Manufactured Al-10Si-Mg Using High-Speed Synchrotron X-ray Imaging 15. A Simplified Investigation into Fatigue Viability of Additively Manufactured IN-718 16. A Post-mortem Analysis of the Strain-induced Crystallization Effects on Fatigue of Elastomers 17. Analysis of Crack Growth in Compressor Blade Root Subjected to Fatigue 18. An Automated Technique to Analyze Micro Indentation Load - Displacement Curve 19. Mechanics and Mechanisms of Slow Crack Propagation in Brittle Hydrogels 20. Viscoelastoplastic Damage with Maximum Rate of Dissipation-Based Growth Criterion and Tri-Component Lie Rate Decomposition 21. Validation of Free-Free Vibration Test Method for Fatigue and Damping Characterization of Thin Structures 22. Improved High-Throughput Measurement of High Cycle Fatigue Examination 23. Application of Linear Viscoelastic Continuum Damage Theory to the low and high Strain rate Response of Thermoplastic Polyurethane 24. Shear Property Characterization of Hydrogels 25. High Temperature Low-Cycle Fatigue and Creep-Fatigue Behavior of Fe-25Ni-20Cr Austenitic Stainless Steel 26. Thermo-Mechanical Characterization of Polyurea Hybrid Blend Variants 27. Milled Carbon Fiber Polyurea Elastomeric Composites