Macro- and Micro-Mechanics of High Velocity Deformation and Fracture

Opening Session (Presiding: K. Kawata and D. C. Drucker) opening address.- Session I (Presiding: W. Goldsmith and J. Shioiri).- Macro- and micro-mechanics of high-velocity brittleness and high-velocity ductility of solids.- A technique of short uniaxial stress pulse.- Session II (Presiding: Yi-long Bai and K. Kishida).- Design and applications of a rig for high energy impact tests.- Penetration of rocks by impact of tools.- Session III (Presiding: C. Y. Chiem and J. Harding).- Dynamic plastic response of OFHC copper at high shear strain rates.- Behaviour of materials at high strain rates and cryogenic temperature.- Bifurcation and void formation in dynamically expanded rings.- Session IV (Presiding: I. M. Fyfe and G. Wihlborg).- The deformation and fracture of hybrid reinforced composites under tensile impact.- Shock programmer, uniaxial energy absorber.- Micromechanisms of impact failure in engineering ceramics.- Session V (Presiding: M. Taya and A. T. Yokobori, Jr.).- High strain rate response regimes for dislocated alloy microstructures.- Session VI (Presiding: T. W. Wright).- Stress rate and grain size dependence of dynamic stress intensity factor by dynamical piling-up of dislocations emitted.- Dynamic void growth in a two-phase material under uniaxial tension.- Session VII (Presiding: R. Dormeval).- A constitutive equation of fcc metals at high strain rates based upon the ultrasonic study of dislocation motion.- Adiabatic shear bands in simple and dipolar plastic materials.- Numerical analysis of adiabatic shear band in an early stage of its propagation.- Session VIII (Presiding: S. Kuriyama and Y. Yeshurun).- Heterogeneity of deformation under dynamic loaidng: Influence of a local pre-strain in copper.- Session IX (Presiding: J. Buchar and Q. S. Nguyen).- Computer simulation on the high speed tensile deformation of iron whiskers by molecular dynamics.- Session X (Presiding: M. Doyama and Shihui Huang).- The effect of strain rate sensitivity on crack initiation under dynamic loading.- The dynamic crack propagation problem in coupled thermoelasticity.- Session XI (Presiding: A. Kobayashi and C. Ruiz).- On the formation of the Siljan crater.- A wave-fractographic study of fast fracture in polymers and polymer composites.- Session XII (Presiding: K. B. Broberg and K. Takahashi).- Dynamic crack propagation associated with inner material degradation.- The effect of cracks on the structural strength of beams and portal frames under impact.- Measurement of dynamic stress intensity history for a crack loaded by impact and.- Session XIII (Presiding: N. Sugimoto and Ren Wang).- Plastic stress wave propagation in a circular bar induced by a longitudinal impact.- A study on foreign object damage of rotating fan blades.- Session XIV (Presiding: T. Shioya and K. Tanaka).- On the plastic instability of a liquid filled cylindrical tube under impulsive axial loading.- Buckle propagation in elastic pipelines.- Session XV (Presiding: H. Homma and H. P. Rossmanith).- Bond stress in a laminated composite subjected to an axial impact.- Deformation and flow of a bulky body penetrated by a deformable projectile.- Stress wave propagation in elastic/viscoplastic media containing a spherical cavity.- Session XVI (Presiding: Hong-ki Hong and S. Tanimura).- Study of the initiation and development of adiabatic shear bands for a titanium alloy under high strain rates.- Dynamic contact of solids - A dynamic photoelastic investigation.- Closing Session (Presiding: T. Hayashi and Li-lih Wang).- Closing remarks.