Hopkinson bar experimental techniques have been extensively employed to investigate the
mechanical response and fracture behavior of engineering materials under high rate …

The last few decades have seen great achievements in dynamic fracture mechanics. Yet, it
was not possible to experimentally quantify the full-field behavior of dynamic fractures, until …

Recent experimental observations of intersonic shear rupture events that occur in a variety
of material systems have rekindled interest in the intersonic failure phenomenon. Since the …

This paper describes the results of an experimental investigation and a numerical simulation
on the impact damage on a range of sandwich panels. The test panels are representative of …

Natural fibres have been adopted for long time as low-cost fillers in the plastic industry but,
nowadays they are starting to replace glass fibres in composite structures thanks to their …

This paper describes experimental observations of various phenomena characteristic of
dynamic intersonic decohesion of bimaterial interfaces. Two separate but complementary …

Dynamic crack growth along a bimaterial interface under impact shear loading is analyzed
numerically. The material on each side of the bond line is characterized by an isotropic …

Crack growth in a homogeneous elastic solid under impact shear loading conditions is
analyzed numerically, with the crack constrained to grow along a weak plane directly ahead …

We present the specific amplitude and waveform characteristics of near-source shear Mach
waves generated by a kinematic model of supershear rupture at constant velocity ν …

In this investigation, a comparison of the interface fracture energy in the adhesive joints
PMMA/PMMA bonded by epoxy and PMMA/epoxy is presented. The work focuses on the …