Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials and Proccesses in Conventional and Multifunctional Materails, Volume 3 Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics

1 Using Remendable Polymers for Aerospace Composite Structures 2 Study of the Effect of Interface Enthalpy on Nanocomposite Viscoelasticity 3 Sterilization Effect on Structure, Thermal and Time-dependent Properties of Polyamides 4 Microstructural Evolution of Nafion During Uniaxial Deformation Monitored by X-ray Scattering 5 Coupled Non-fickian Diffusion and Large Deformation of Hydrogels 6 Accelerated Testing Methods for Oxidative Aging of Polymeric Composites 7 Degradation of Shape Memory Polymer Due to Water and Diesel Fuels 8 Structural Enhancement of Framing Members Using Polyurea 9 Experiments and Models for the Time Dependent Mechanics of Nanoscale Polymeric Structures and Nanocrystalline Metal Films 10 Study of Damage Evolution in High Strength Al Alloys Using X-ray Tomography 11 Corrosion Behavior of SS 304 with Ball Milling and Electrolytic Plasma Treatment in NaCl Solution 12 Experimental Studies of Phase Transformation in Shape Memory Alloys 13 Measurement of Energy Loss in Thin Films Using Microbeam Deflection Method 14 Multiscale Characterization of Water-, Oil- and UV-conditioned Shape-memory Polymer Under Compression 15 Shape Memory Polymer Based Cellular Materials 16 Influence of Mechanical Properties and Loading Conditions on the Recovery of Shape Memory Polymers 17 Fatigue Cycling of Shape Memory Polymer Resin 18 Higher Rate Testing of Long Fiber Filled Polypropylene 19 Characterization of Elastomeric Composite Materials for Blast Mitigation 20 Experimental Arrangement for Measuring the High-strain-rate Response of Polymers Under Pressures 21 Simulation of Impact Tests on Polycarbonate at Different Strain Rates and Temperatures 22 Experimental Investigation of Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Polyurea-fly Ash Composites 23 Damage & Fracture of High-explosive Mock Subject to Cyclic Loading 24 An Evaluation of A Modified Iosipescu Specimen for Measurement Of Elastic-Plastic-Creep Properties of Solder Materials 25 Temperature Effect on Poisson’s Ratio of Woven Composites 26 Detection and Damage Monitoring in Composite Structures Using Piezoelectrics 27 Representative Volume Element Analysis for the Evaluation of Effective Material Properties of Fiber and Particle Loaded Composites with Different Shaped Inclusions 28 Time Dependent (Creep) Deformation of Thin Elastomers at Cold Temperature and Effective Strain Analysis of Their Laminates 29 Time and Temperature Response of Composite Overwrapped Cylinders 30 High Temperature, Non-contact, Electro-magnetic Mechanical Apparatus for Creep Testing 31 Experiments and Predictions of Large Deformation and Failure in Thermomechanical Loading Environments 32 Compliance Plot Analysis of Nonlinear Response of PMMA During Nanoindentation 33 An Incremental Formulation for the Linear Analysis of Viscoelastic Beams: Relaxation Differential Approach Using Generalized Variables 34 Modeling the Nonlinear Viscoelastic Behavior of Polyurea Using a Distortionmodified Free Volume Approach 35 An Incremental Constitutive Law for Damaging Viscoelastic Materials 36 Reliability Analysis of Mixed Mode Cracking with Viscoelastic Orthotropic Behaviour 37 Long-term Life Prediction of CFRP Structures Based on MMF/ATM Method 38 Non-local Solutions to Direct and Inverse Problems in Mechanics: A Fractional Calculus Approach 39 Study on Crystallinity Dependency of Creep Deformation on GFRTP of Polyoxythlene (POM) 40 Numerical Simulation of hot Imprint Process of Periodical Lamellar Microstructure into Polycarbonate 41 Rapid Characterization of Visco-elastic Properties of Polymeric Materials 42 Estimation of Fatigue Life of Cortical Bone Considering Viscoelastic Properties and Damage Mechanics 43 Crack Initiation and Viscoplasticity in Polyethylene Joint Replacement Components.

Biography

Dr. Tom Proulx is the Executive Director of the Society for Experimental Mechanics, Inc.