Fracture, Fatigue, Failure and Damage Evolution, Volume 3

Allison Beese-Pennsylvania State University, USA; Ryan Berke-Utah State University, USA; Garrett Pataky, Clemson University, SC, USA; Shelby Hutchens, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA.

• Size Effect Analysis and Characterization of Quasi‑brittle Fracture of Sandstone Rocks.- Fracture Response of Additively Manufactured Aluminum Alloys: Effects of Loading-Rate and Build Orientation.- Open Hole Fatigue Testing of CNT Infused GFRP Multi-scale Composite Laminates using Infrared Thermography.- Effects of Work Hardening on 314 Stainless Steel Alloy.- Gap Test Consequences for Fracture Mechanics of Quasibrittle Materials and Plastic-Hardening Metals.- Testing and Calibration of an in-house built Fatigue Testing Machine.- Fatigue Testing of Additively Manufactured 17-4PH Stainless Steel Samples with a Stress Concentration.- Mixed-mode Fracture Interactions Along Centrally Cracked Weakened Planes.- Use of Full-field Strain Measurements to Determine Mechanical Properties of Shale Under Repeated Cyclic Loading.- Multiaxial Fatigue of Crystallizing Natural Rubber Under Non-relaxing Loadings: A Study on the Fatigue Life Reinforcement.- The Integrated Digital Image CorrelationTechnique Applied to Fracture Mechanics: An Improvement on Crack Detection and Localization.- Fatigue of Layered Jamming Materials.- The Novel “Fracture” Gun at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory for Precise, Highly Instrumented Impact Experiments.