Experimental and Applied Mechanics, Volume 4 Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics

1 Correlation of Structural Strain to Tip Vorticity and Lift for a MAV Pliant Membrane Wing 2 Deformation Mapping at the Microstructural Length Scale 3 Molecular Tailoring of Interfacial Adhesion Using Self-Assembled Monolayers 4 Micromechanical Characterization of Ductile Damage in DP Steel 5 MEMS Device for Fatigue Testing of 25 mm Thick Aluminum Specimens 6 High Confidence Level Calibration for AFM Based Fracture Testing of Nanobeams 7 High Strain Rate Characteristics of Fiber Bragg Grating Strain Sensors 8 Dynamic Shape and Strain Measurements of Rotating Tire in Time-Series 9 Measurement of Metallic Adhesion Force-to-Elongation Profile Under High Separation-Rate Conditions 10 Prediction of Constraint Parameters Along the 3D Crack Front Under Negative Biaxial Loadings 11 Stress Intensity Factors for Viscoelastic Axisymmetric Problems Applied to Wood 12 Role of Viscoelasticity in Predicting the Shape Memory Effect of Polymers 13 Damage Assessment in Syracuse Limestone Specimens by Frequency Analysis of Elastic Emissions 14 Photogrammetry Measurements During a Tanking Test on the Space Shuttle External Tank, ET-137 15 Experimental, Numerical and Analytical Evaluation of Structural Integrity of Experiment Container Subjected to Reduced Gravity Flight Testing 16 Use of Fiber Bragg Grating Strain Gages on a Pipeline Specimen Repaired with a CFRE Composite System 17 Microstructure in the FSW Butt Joint of Aluminum Alloy AA5083 18 Load History Dependency of Plastic Collapse Behavior of Cracked Piping 19 Production of Metal Matrix Composites Using Thixoinfiltration Techniques 20 Use of Vision-Based Methods for Measurement of Mechanical Properties of Exhaust Catalysts 21 Review of Methods for Determining Residual Stresses in Biological Materials 22 A Comparison of Residual Stress Measurements on a Linear Friction Weld Using the Contour Method and Neutron Diffraction 23 Experimental Study of High Speed Ball End Milling of Titanium Alloy (Ti-6Al-4V) 24 Very High-Cycle Fatigue Resistance of Shot Peened High-Strength Aluminium Alloys 25 The Application of the Combined Creep and Rate-Independent Plasticity Model to Turbine Components Life Prediction 26 Modified Constitutive Relation Error Strategy for Elastic Properties Identification 27 Identification of the Anisotropic Plastic Behaviour of Sheet Metals at Large Strains 28 Cohesive Zone Law Extraction from an Experimental Peel Test 29 Application of a New Experimental Method to Determine Bi-Material Interface Bonding Strength 30 Calibration of Barkhausen Noise for Residual Stress Measurement 31 Film Residual Stress Assessment Method via Temporarily Thermal Relaxation 32 Determining Residual Stresses with the Aid of Optical Interference Techniques 33 Interfacial Fracture Toughness and Residual Stress of Thermally Sprayed Coatings 34 Design of Ultrasonic Probe Configuration Using Finite-Difference Time Domain Simulation 35 Absorbed Versus Released Energy in the Cracking Process of Heterogeneous Materials Under Compression 36 Detailed Measurements of Thread Deformation and Failure in Thin Walled Aluminum Alloy Joints 37 Simulation of Interference Fitted Joint Strength as Used in Hot Rolling Work Rolls 38 Modelling of Nosing for the Assembly of Aerospace Bearings 39 Multi-axial Quasi-static Strength of a Clinched Sheet Metal Assembly 40 Development of a Test Simulator to Perform Optimized Experiment Design 41 Simplified Calculation Method of the Torsion Effect on the Seismic Behaviour of Timber Building 42 Experimental Analysis of Semi-rigidity Joint in the Standardized Timber Beam 43 Nano-Macro Correlation of Nano-Silica Concrete 44 Experimental Results of Green Wood Slice Under Natural Drying 45 Thickness Effect on Cross-Ply GLARE 5 FML Beams Subjected to Ballistic Impact 46 Hole-Drilling Residual Stress Measurement in an Intermediate Thickness Specimen 47 Effects of Strain’s Error on Residual Stresses Calculated by HDM 48 Hole-Drilling Residual Stress Measurement with Artifact Correction Using Full-Field DIC 49 Anisotropic and Pressure-Dependent Plasticity Modeling for Residual Stress Prediction 50 Simulation of Triaxial Residual Stress Mapping for a Hollow Cylinder.

Biography

Carlos E. Ventura, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Wendy C. Crone, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, USA. Cosme Furlong, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, USA.