Time Dependent Constitutive Behavior and Fracture/Failure Processes, Volume 3 Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics

1 Thermal and Mechanical Characterization of a Healable Polymer 2 Fracture Behavior of Polymeric Foams Under Mixed-Mode Loading 3 Coupled Experimental and Computational Analysis of Fracture Path Selection in PMMA Blocks 4 Procedures for Mixed Mode Fracture Testing of Bonded Beams in a Dual Actuator Load Frame 5 Linear Viscoelastic Behavior of Poly(Ethylene Therephtalate) Above Tg Amorphous Visco-elastic Property VS Crystallinity: Experimental and Micromechanical Modeling 6 Experimental Study of Voids in High Strength Aluminum Alloys 7 Local Strain Accommodation in Polycrystalline Ni-Base Superalloys 8 Coupled Thermal-mechanical Experiments for Validation of Pressurized, High Temperature Systems 9 Predictive Simulation of a Validation Forging Using a Recrystallization Model 10 Characterization of Liquefied Natural Gas Tanker Steel From Cryogenic to Fire Temperatures 11 Nonlocal Microdamage Constitutive Model for High Energy Impacts 12 Impact Testing and Dynamic Behavior of Materials 13 Development of an Internal State Variable Model to Describe the Mechanical Behavior of Amorphous Polymer and its Application to Impact Testing 14 Examination of Validity for Viscoelastic Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar Method 15 Weldability and Toughness Evaluation of the Ceramic Reinforced Steel Matrix Composites (TIB2-RSMC) 16 Nonlinear Viscoelastic Nanoindentation of PVAc17 Theoretical and Computational Modelling of Instrumented Indentation of Viscoelastic Composites 18 Obtaining Viscoelastic Properties From Instrumented Indentation 19 Mechanical Properties Measurement of Sand Grains by Nanoindentation 20 Design and Implementation of Coupled Thermomechanical Failure Experiments 21 The Role of Interface and Reinforcement in the Finite Deformation Response of Polyurethane-Montmorillonite Nanocomposites 22 Time-Temperature Superposition and High Rate Response of Thermoplastic Composites and Constituents 23 Measuring Time Dependent Diffusion in Polymer Matrix Composites 24 New Strain Rate Dependent Material Model for Fiber Reinforced Composites 25 Effect of Crystallinity and Fiber Volume Fraction on Creep Behavior of Glass Fiber Reinforced Polyamide 26 Hybrid Metal-Ceramic Thermo-oxidation Protection Layers for Polymer Matrix Composites 27 Degradation Phenomena Under Water Environment of Cotton Yarn Reinforced Polylactic-acid 28 Advanced Accelerated Testing Methodology for Life Prediction of CFRP Laminates 29 Dynamic Properties of Foam With Negative Incremental Bulk Modulus 30 A Note on Automated Time-Temperature and Time-Pressure Shifting 31 Application of Fractional Derivatives Models to Time-dependent Materials 32 Tissue- and Microstructural-level Deformation of Aortic Tissue Under Viscoelastic/Viscoplastic Loading 33 Strain Accumulation Process in Periodically Loaded Polymers 34 Viscoelastic and Viscoplastic Mechanical Behavior of Polymeric Nanofibers: An Experimental and Theoretical Approach 35 Effect of Polyacrylate Interlayer Microstructure on the Impact Response of Multi-layered Polymers 36 Visco-elastic Properties of Carbon Nanotubes and Their Relation to Damping 37 Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) Solutions Using Remendable Polymers 38 Experimental Characterization and Modeling of Shape Memory Material for Downhole Completion Applications 39 Mechanics of Persulfonated Polytetrafluorethylene Proton Exchange Membranes 40 The Influence of Pressure on the Large Deformation Shear Response of a Polyurea 41 Micromechanics Models for Predicting Tensile Properties of Latex Paint Films 42 Time Dependent Recovery of Shape Memory Polymers 43 Structural Relaxation Near the Glass Transition: Observing Kovacs Kinetic Phenomenology by Mechanical Measurements 44 Creep Mechanisms in Bone and Dentin Via High-Energy X-ray Diffraction 45 High Local Deformation Correlates With Optical Property Change in Cortical Bone 46 Probing Pre-failure Molecular Deformation in Cortical Bone With Fluorescent Dyes 47 The Influence of MgO Particle Size on Composite Bone Cements 48 Small-scale Mechanical Testing: Applications to Bone Biomechanics and Mechanobiology 49 Determination of Fracturing Toughness of Bamboo Culms 50 Biomechanical Analysis of Ramming Behavior in Ovis Canadensis 51 Deformation and Failure Mode Transition in Hard Biological Composites 52 Measurement of Structural Variations in Enamel Nanomechanical Properties Using Quantitative Atomic Force Acoustic Microscopy 53 Influence of Diamond-like Carbon Coatings on the Fatigue Behaviour of Spinal Implant Rod 54 Modeling Creep and Fatigue Properties of Bone at Nanoscale Level 55 High-energy X-ray Diffraction Measurement of Bone Deformation During Fatigue 56 Investigation of Cyclic Impact Fatigue, Grain-to-grain Interaction, and Residual Stress in Zirconia Dental Materials.

Biography

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