Fracture, Fatigue, Failure and Damage Evolution. Vol.8: Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Conference on

Reflection-mode Digital Gradient Sensing Technique for Experimental Fracture Mechanics.- Experimental and Computational Investigation of Out-of-Plane low Velocity Impact Behaviour of CFRP Composite Plates.- Prediction of Incipient Nano-scale Rupture for Thermosets in Plane Stress.- Effect of Degree of Cure on Damage Development in FRP.- Stochastic Discrete Damage Simulations of Laminate Composites.- Development of a Specimen for in-situ Diffraction Planar Biaxial Experiments.- V-Notched Rail Test for Shear-dominated Deformation of Ti-6Al-4V.- A statistical/computational/experimental Approach to Study the Microstructual Morphology of Damage.- Prediction of Ductile Fracture Through Small-size Notched Tensile Specimens.- Development of a Generalized Entropic Framework for Damage Assessment.- Modelling of Experimental Observations of Electrical Response of CNT Composites.- Effect of Micro-cracks on the Thermal Conductivity of Particulate Nanocomposite.- Fatigue Tests on Fiber Coated Titanium Implant- Bone Cement Interfaces.- Fatigue Behavior of Carburized Steel at Long Lives.- Fatigue Behavior of Fluid End Crossbore Using a Coupon-based Approach.- Fatigue in FCC Polycrystalline Metals - Numerical and Experimental Study.- Notch Strain Analysis of Crossbore Geometry.- Keynote: Opto-acoustic and Neutron Emissions from Fracture and Earthquakes.- Field Theoretical Description of Shear Bands.- Measuring the Effective Fracture Toughness of Heterogeneous Materials.- Fatigue Testing and Local Strain Analysis of Nitinol Devices.- Environmental Protection by the Opto-acoustic and Neutron Emission Seismic Precursors.- Neutron Emissions From Hydrodynamic Cavitation.- From Dark Matter to Brittle Fracture.- Compositional Variations in Palladium Electrodes Exposed to Electrolysis.- Strain-rate-dependent Yield Criteria for Composite Laminates.- Experimental Fatigue Specimen and Finite Element Analysis for Characterization of Dental Composites.- Fracture Toughness and Impact Damage Resistance of Nanoreinforced Carbon/Epoxy Composites.- Compression Testing of Micro-scale Unidirectional Polymer Matrix Composites.- Crack Analysis of Wood Under Climate Variations.- Numerical Fracture Analysis Under Temperature Variations by Energetic Method.- Use of a Multiplexed Photonic Doppler Velocimetry (MPDV) System to Study Plastic Deformation of Metallic Steel Plates in High Velocity Impact.- In-Service Preload Monitoring of Bolted Joints Subjected to Fatigue Loading using a Novel 'MoniTorque' Bolt.- Fatigue Behavior of Novel Hybrid Fastening System With Adhesive Inserts.