SEM Fall Conference

Session 00   Plenary Presentation (Tuesday Morning)
8:30 AM	117	Plenary Presentation (1 hour presentation) Blast Impact Survivability (From Providence to Providence – A Personal Journey; A Lifetime of Breaking Things.)
		G.N. Nurick, University of Cape Town
Session 00A   Plenary Presentation (Tuesday Afternoon)
1:20 PM	116	Plenary Presentation (1 hour presentation) Challenges to Fielding Robust, Durable, Re-usable Platforms Capable of Sustained Hypersonic Flight and Responsive Space Access
		R. Chona, U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory
Session 00B   Plenary Presentation (Wednesday Morning)
8:30 AM	119	Plenary Presentation (1 hour presentation) Performance of Ship Structures Under Extreme Environments - ONR Related Research Thrust Areas
		Y.D.S. Rajapakse, Office of Naval Research
Session 00C   Plenary Presentation (Wednesday Afternoon)
1:20 PM	118	Plenary Presentation (1 hour presentation) The Mechanical Performance of Polymers and Polymer Composites at High Strain-rates
		W.G. Proud, Imperial College London; D. Porter, University of Oxford; P.J. Gould, QinetiQ Ltd; D.M. Williamson, S.M. Walley, University of Cambridge
Session 00D   Plenary Presentation (Thursday Morning)
8:30 AM	120	Plenary Presentation (1 hour presentation) Extreme Loading of Critical Infrastructure
		S.C. Woodson, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center
Session 01   In Honor of Gerald Nurick: Blast Mitigation I (Tuesday Morning)
10:00 AM	23	Sandwich Panels Subjected to Multiple Intense Shocks
		A. Vaziri, A. Ajdari, Northeastern University
10:20 AM	86	Blast Loading of 3D Woven Composites
		M. Pankow, B. Justusson, A. Salvi, A.M. Waas, University of Michigan; C.-F. Yen, S. Ghiorse, U.S. Army Research Laboratory
10:40 AM	109	The Blast Resistance of Sandwich Composites With a Functionally Graded Core and Polyurea Interlayer
		N. Gardner, A. Shukla, The University of Rhode Island
11:00 AM	74	Dynamic Response of Submerged Composite Sandwich Structures to Blast Loading
		S.S. Avachat, M. Zhou, Georgia Institute of Technology
11:20 AM	18	Impact and Blast Loading of Glass-Fibre Reinforced Polymer Composites
		H. Arora, P. Hooper, J.P. Dear, Imperial College London
11:40 AM	47	Response of V-shape Plates to Localised Blast Load
		S.C.K. Yuen, G.S. Langdon, G.N. Nurick, E.G. Pickering, University of Cape Town
Session 02   SHPB I and Dynamic Loading (Tuesday Morning)
10:00 AM	15	Dynamic Response of Gelatin Under Compression, Tension, and Shear
		G. Subhash, University of Florida
10:20 AM	132	Interaction Load Identification in Explosive Events With an Experiment and Simulation Integrated Approach
		S. Xu, Georgia Southern University; V. Tiwari, X.M. Deng, M.A. Sutton, University of South Carolina; M. Davoud, Georgia Southern University; W.L. Fourney, University of Maryland, College Park
10:40 AM	46	Response of Magnesium Nanocomposite to Quasi-static and Dynamic Loading
		Y.B. Guo, V.P.W. Shim, B.W.F. Tan, National University of Singapore
11:00 AM	28	Behavior of Thin Walled Cylinders Under Pulse Loading
		A. Malladi, B. Aswin, P. Venkitanarayanan, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
11:20 AM	101	Split Hopkinson Bar Experiments of Preloaded Interfaces
		J.R. Foley, J.C. Dodson, C.M. McKinion, U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory; V.K. Luk, Sandia National Laboratories; G.L. Falbo, LMS Americas
11:40 AM	126	Establishment and Development of Laboratory Based Motorcycle Crash Test Facility
		C.L. Tan, University Putra Malaysia; S.V. Wong, University Putra Malaysia/Malaysia Institute of Road Safety Research
Session 03   Impact I (Tuesday Morning)
10:00 AM	128	Effects of Beam Growth and Axial Force in Progressive Collapse Analysis of RC Structures
		A. Kazemi, M. Sasani, Northeastern University
10:20 AM	81	Composite Versus Steel Rails for Vehicle Front Impact Safety
		A. Deb, P. Lakshmanan, Indian Institute of Science; D.K. Kharat, Armament Research & Development Establishment; S.C. Lakkad, Indian Institute of Technology
10:40 AM	94	Growth of Hole in Thin Plates Under Hypervelocity Impact of Cylindrical Projectiles
		M. Hosseini, Lorestan University; H. Abbas, King Saud University; N.K. Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
11:00 AM	39	Deflection Study of Urethane Rubber Beam Model Under Impact Loading
		D. Goldar, Delhi College of Engineering
11:20 AM	111	Numerical Investigation of Different Strength After Impact Test Procedures
		M. Klaus, H.-G. Reimerdes, RWTH Aachen University
11:40 AM	63	Solder Joint Failure From Impact-induced Flexure of PCBs
		S.K.W. Seah, V.P.W. Shim, National University of Singapore
Session 04   In Honor of Gerald Nurick: Blast Mitigation II (Tuesday Early Afternoon)
2:30 PM	20	Blast and Impact Resistance of Laminated Glass Structures
		P. Hooper, H. Arora, J.P. Dear, Imperial College London
2:50 PM	97	Dynamic Response of Glass Panels Subjected to Shock Loading
		P. Kumar, A. Shukla, University of Rhode Island
3:10 PM	130	Ultra-high Speed Imaging and DIC for Explosive System Observation
		P.L. Reu, M.A. Cooper, T.J. Miller, Sandia National Laboratories
Session 05   Constitutive Properties I (Tuesday Early Afternoon)
2:30 PM	83	Using Designed Damage to Study Incipient Nucleation in Pure Aluminum
		M.T. Tucker, J.F. Binger, C-F. Chen, C. Liu, G.T. Gray, III, Los Alamos National Laboratory
2:50 PM	124	On the Cosserat-type Constitutive Equations in the Theory of Thin-walled Structures
		H. Altenbach, V.A. Eremeyev, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
3:10 PM	70	A Constitutive Model for Thermoplastics With Some Applications
		A.H. Clausen, Structural Impact Laboratory/Norwegian University of Science and Technology; M.T. Hovden, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; M. Polanco-Loria, T. Berstad, Structural Impact Laboratory/SINTEF Materials and Chemistry; O.S. Hopperstad, Structural Impact Laboratory/Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Session 06   Elastic/Plastic Behavior (Tuesday Early Afternoon)
2:30 PM	96	Prediction of Transient Loads and Perforation of Engine Casing During Blade-off Event of Fan Rotor Assembly
		R. Jain, Gas Turbine Research Establishment
2:50 PM	73	A Parametric Elastoplasticity Description
		A. Meyers, H. Xiao, O.T. Bruhns, Ruhr-University Bochum
3:10 PM	69	Ultra High Speed DIC on a Three Point Bending Test Mounted on a Hopkinson Bar
		F. Pierron, Arts et Métiers ParisTech; M.A. Sutton, V. Tiwari, University of South Carolina
Session 07   In Honor of Gerald Nurick: Blast Mitigation III (Tuesday Late Afternoon)
4:00 PM	45	Pressures on Targets From Buried Explosions
		L.C. Taylor, W.L. Fourney, H.U. Leiste, University of Maryland, College Park
4:20 PM	67	Blast Tube Loading of Plates Using an Instrumented Ballistic Pendulum
		T.J. Cloete, G.N. Nurick, University of Cape Town
4:40 PM	66	Blast Loading on Semi-buried Structures With Soil-structure Interaction
		M. Kumar, V.A. Matsagar, K.S. Rao, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
5:00 PM	29	Progressive Collapse Analysis of a Typical RC Building of Riyadh
		T.H. Almusallam, King Saud University; P. Mendis, T. Ngo, University of Melbourne; H.M. Elsanadedy, H. Abbas, S.H Alsayed, Y.A. Al-Salloum, M.S. Al-Haddad, King Saud University
5:20 PM	110	USDHS-S&T/IGD Advanced Materials Database
		M. Ettouney, Weidlinger Associates, Inc.; M. Kennett, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; E. Kennett, National Institute of Building Sciences; R. Payn, db Interactive
Session 08   Constitutive Properties II (Tuesday Late Afternoon)
4:00 PM	43	Deformation Criterion of Low Carbon Steel Subjected to High Speed Impacts
		W. Visser, G. Plume, C.-E. Rousseau, O. Gregory, H. Ghonem, The University of Rhode Island
4:20 PM	90	A Bi-Failure Specimen for Accessing the Performance of Failure Criteria
		M. Alves, L. Driemeier, University of São Paulo
4:40 PM	82	Behaviors of Steel Hat Section Components Under Axial Impact Loading
		A. Deb, Indian Institute of Science; A.K. Chigalapulli, Tata Technologies; B. Haorongbam, Indian Institute of Science; N.K. Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology
5:00 PM	22	Experimental Study on the Buckling Mode of Aluminium Extrusions
		Ø. Fyllingen, Bergen University College; M. Langseth, O.S. Hopperstad, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
5:20 PM	121	Directional Effects of Explosions in One-sided Open Cubical Structures
		H. Lal, S.K. Vasudeva, DRDO
Session 09   Impact II (Tuesday Late Afternoon)
4:00 PM	31	10+ km/sec Hypervelocity Impact Modeling with a Lagrangian Solver
		A.J. Ward, R.P. Nance, X. Xiao, A. Shirley, J.R. Cogar, Corvid Technologies
4:20 PM	80	A Preliminary Investigation Into the Spall Strength of Cast Iron
		G. Plume, C.-E. Rousseau, The University of Rhode Island
4:40 PM	127	Dynamic Failure of Monolithic and Layered PMMA and PC Plates
		S.A. Tekalur, W. Zhang, L. Huynh, Michigan State University
5:00 PM	34	Impact Behavior of SBR-latex Modified Fiber Reinforced Concrete Beams
		S.A.K. Zai, Bangalore University; G.L. Easwara Prasad, V.T. University; N.K. Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi; N. Munirudrappa, V.T. University; K. Muthumani, SERC Chennai
Session 10   Blast Mitigation IV (Wednesday Morning)
10:00 AM	91	Progressive Damage and Delamination in Composite Plates Under Dynamic Loading
		D. Bamford, Naval Undersea Warfare Center; D. Hufner, General Dynamics Electric Boat; M. Accorsi, University of Connecticut
10:20 AM	102	Energy and Impulse Evaluation During a Shock Tube Experiment
		E. Wang, A. Shukla, The University of Rhode Island
10:40 AM	42	Design of an Advanced Helmet Liner to Reduce TBI: The Case for Simulations
		R. Goel, A. Vechart, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; B. Schimizze, Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies of Materials; G. Christou, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; A. Jérusalem, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies of Materials; L.R. Young, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; S. Son, Purdue University
11:00 AM	68	Dynamic Response of Shell Structures Subjected to Explosive Loads
		M.D. Goel, Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute; V.A. Matsagar, G.S. Benipal, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi; A.K. Gupta, Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute
11:20 AM	59	Blast Loading of Triangular Conical Truncated Energy Absorber
		M.A. Aleitani, Jeddah Municipality; M.A. Alzahrani, A.A. Aljinidi, King Abdulaziz University
11:40 AM	65	The Optimal Transportation Meshfree (OTM) Method for Ballistic Limit Impact Simulations
		B. Li, A. Kidane, G. Ravichandran, M. Ortiz, California Institute of Technology
Session 11   SHPB II (Wednesday Morning)
10:00 AM	105	Dynamic Constitutive Behavior and Fracture Initiation Toughness of Hastelloy X Under Thermo-mechanical Loads
		S. Abotula, A. Shukla, The University of Rhode Island; R. Chona, U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory
10:20 AM	48	Axial Loading of Cylinders Made of Nylon With Nano-particles
		R.T. Moura, L.M. Mazzariol, University of São Paulo; A.H. Clausen, M. Langseth, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; M. Alves, University of São Paulo
10:40 AM	37	Dynamic Tensile Characterization of a 4330-V Steel With Kolsky Bar Techniques
		B. Song, B.R. Antoun, K. Connelly, Sandia National Laboratories
11:00 AM	76	Dynamic Constitutive Behavior of Reinforced Hydrogels Inside Liquid Environment
		S. Padamati, V.B. Chalivendra, A. Agrawal, P.D. Calvert, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
11:20 AM	56	High and Low Temperature Techniques in Hopkinson Split Bar Testing
		V.-T. Kuokkala, M. Apostol, M. Hokka, Tampere University of Technology
Session 12   Impact III (Wednesday Morning)
10:00 AM	32	Hypervelocity Impact of Spaced Plates: Simulation and Comparison to Data
		M. Worsham, A. Kurtz, A. Shirley, X. Xiao, Corvid Technologies
10:20 AM	51	Projectile Impact Behavior of Flock Fiber Z-Reinforced Composites
		H.O. Colón, J.M. Rice, Y.K. Kim, V.B. Chalivendra, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
10:40 AM	33	Modeling Ballistic Impact of Anisotropic 2024 Aluminum Plate
		A Gilat, J.D Seidt, The Ohio State University
11:00 AM	114	Effect of Blast Loading on CFRP Retrofitted RC Columns
		H.M. Elsanadedy, T.H. Almusallam, H. Abbas, Y.A. Al-Salloum, S.H Alsayed, M.S. Al-Haddad, King Saud University
11:20 AM	57	Effect of Target Span and Projectile Nose Shape on the Ballistic Resistance
		P.K. Gupta, S.K. Tak, M.A. Iqbal, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
11:40 AM	122	Probabilistic Analysis of Composite Panels Under Low Velocity Impact
		S. Ahmad, N. K. Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Session 13   Blast Mitigation V (Wednesday Early Afternoon)
2:30 PM	41	Material Systems for Blast-energy Dissipation
		B. Langhorst, Idaho National Laboratory; C. Cook, Idaho National Laboratory/The University of Montana; J. Schondel, H.S. Chu, Idaho National Laboratory
2:50 PM	104	Effect of Temperature on the Dynamic Performance of the Core Material, Face-sheets and the Sandwich Composite
		S. Gupta, A. Shukla, The University of Rhode Island
3:10 PM	87	Blast Response of Sandwich Shells With Crushable Foam Cores
		M.S. Hoo Fatt, H. Surabhi, Y. Gao, The University of Akron
Session 14   Emerging Fields (Wednesday Early Afternoon)
2:30 PM	25	Self-Healing Concrete
		A. Bose, M.M. Pelletier, University of Rhode Island
2:50 PM	88	Reinforcement Preform Architecture for Short Fiber Reinforced Composites Using Triboelectic, Electrostatic and Pneumatic Principles
		M.N. Kumbhani, University of Massachusetts Lowell, J.M. Rice, Y.K. Kim, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
3:10 PM	85	Multi-axial ‘Pre-yield’ Behavior of Polymeric Cellular Foam and Sea Water Effects
		A. Siriruk, A. Sharma, D. Penumadu, University of Tennessee
Session 15   Plasticity (Wednesday Early Afternoon)
2:30 PM	106	Determination of Constitutive Response of Plastically Graded Materials
		G Subhash, B. Nathan, N. Arakere, M. KLecka, University of Florida
2:50 PM	21	A Thermo-mechanically-coupled Theory for the Damage and Failure of Amorphous Polymers
		S.A. Chester, V. Srivastava, L. Anand, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3:10 PM	53	Deformation Recovery Derived From a Finite J2-Flow Model
		O.T. Bruhns, H. Xiao, A. Meyers, Ruhr-University Bochum
Session 16   Blast Mitigation VI (Wednesday Late Afternoon)
4:00 PM	93	Characterization: Performance Estimation for HME
		J. Oxley, J. Smith, J. Kennedy,The University of Rhode Island; S. Stewart, University of Illinois; P. Bowden, R. Rettinger, The University of Rhode Island
4:20 PM	115	Blast Mitigation Properties of Damaged Sandwich Composites
		M. Jackson, Naval Undersea Warfare Center; A. Shukla, The University of Rhode Island
4:40 PM	113	Blast Propagation Through Sandwich Composites With Stepwise Graded Cores
		A.D. Pierce, Boston University
5:00 PM	107	Dynamic Compressive Strength and Energy Absorption of Aluminium Foams
		D. Karagiozova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences/University of Cape Town
5:20 PM	131	Study of Machining as an Impact Phenomenon and Stress Wave Propagation
		Girish Velamakanni, Chittaranjan Sahay, University of Hartford
Session 17   Wave Propagation (Wednesday Late Afternoon)
4:00 PM	72	Stress Wave Propagation in Functionally Graded Solids Under Impact Loading
		J.-H. Kim, G. Anandakumar, University of Connecticut
4:20 PM	26	Dynamic Mechanical Behavior of Hierarchically-structured Composites
		H.A. Bruck, University of Maryland
4:40 PM	77	Dynamic Attenuation Properties of Syntactic Foams
		B. Ale, C.-E. Rousseau, The University of Rhode Island
5:00 PM	36	Stress Wave Propagation in a Composite Beam Subjected to Transverse Impact
		B. Song, H. Jin, W.-Y. Lu, Sandia National Laboratories
5:20 PM	27	Wave Propagation in one Dimensional Granular Media: Experiments and Modeling
		T. On, J. Lambros, Y. Starosvetsky, A. Vakakis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Session 18   Dynamic Loading (Wednesday Late Afternoon)
4:00 PM	49	Scaling of Blast Loading Experiments for Buried Explosives
		M.A. Sutton, X.M. Deng, V. Tiwari, X. Zhao, University of South Carolina; W.L. Fourney, H.U. Leiste, University of Maryland, College Park
4:20 PM	92	Effects of High G-loading on MEMS Structure and Die Attachment
		R.T. Marinis, Sandia National Laboratories; P. Heft, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; J.W. Soucy, Draper Laboratory; P.B. Ruffin, U.S. Army; M. Zwiener, University of Alabama Huntsville; R.J. Pryputniewicz, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
4:40 PM	79	Study of Possible use of Strain-rate Dependent Materials in Protective Helmets
		J. Kunecky, O. Jirousek, Czech Technical University
5:00 PM	64	Large Plastic Deflection of a Fully Clamped Beam Under Impact
		F.L. Chen, Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics; T.X. Yu, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Session 19   Blast Mitigation VII (Thursday Morning)
10:00 AM	100	Localised Blast Loaded Circular Plates: An Experimental and Numerical Investigation
		V.H. Balden, G.N. Nurick, University of Cape Town
10:20 AM	40	Distribution of Specific Impulse on Vehicles Subjected to IED’s
		W.L. Fourney, H.U. Leiste, A. Hauck, D. Jung, University of Maryland, College Park
10:40 AM	14	Underwater Explosive Loading of E-Glass/Epoxy Composite Plates: Experimental and Computational Comparisons
		J. LeBlanc, Naval Undersea Warfare Center
11:00 AM	89	Mitigating Effect of Polymer Coating on Deformation From Non-ideal Explosions
		J. Damazo, California Institute of Technology; K. Chow-Yee, University of California, Berkeley; J. Karnesky, U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory; J.E. Shepherd, California Institute of Technology
11:20 AM	98	A Coupled Eulerian/Lagrangian Simulation of Blast Dynamics
		D. Miller, H. Pan, R.P. Nance, A. Shirley, J. Cogar, Corvid Technologies
11:40 AM	108	Underwater Explosion Bubble Jetting Effects on Structures
		J.L. O'Daniel, Engineer Research and Development Center; R.Z. Ilamni, G. Harris, Naval Surface Warfare Center; G. Chahine, DynaFlow, Inc.
Session 20   Crash Mechanisms (Thursday Morning)
10:00 AM	24	In-plane Dynamic Crushing and Energy Absorption of Cellular Structures
		A. Ajdari, S. Babaee, A. Vaziri, Northeastern University
10:20 AM	44	Development of Compact Shock Energy Absorber to Improve Structural Crashworthiness
		B.K. Parida, X. Xin, J. Carter, A.K. Zaouk, G. Samavedam, QinetiQ North America; S. Punwani, Federal Railroad Administration
10:40 AM	38	Energy Absorption Characteristics of Circular Composites Tubes in Quasi Static and Impact Loading
		R. Muralikannan, R. Velmurugan, G.L. Easwara Prasad, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
11:00 AM	129	Finite Element Modeling of Post-punching Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Flat Slab Structures
		Y. Mirzaei, M. Sasani, Northeastern University
11:20 AM	62	Failure Models Evaluations on Structures Under Low Speed Crash - Experiments and Simulations
		E.B. Bugelli, L. Driemeier, General Motors Brazil
Session 21   Impact IV (Thursday Morning)
10:00 AM	95	Inertia Effects in the Impact Response of Soft Materials
		E. Nishida, Sandia National Laboratories; W.W. Chen, Purdue University
10:20 AM	50	Structure/Property Relations of Aluminum Under Varying Rates and Stress States
		M.T. Tucker, Los Alamos National Laboratory; M.F. Horstemeyer, W.R. Whittington, K.N. Solanki, Mississippi State University
10:40 AM	11	Effect of Projectile Nose and Incidence Angle on Ballistic Resistance
		M.A. Iqbal, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee; N.K. Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
11:00 AM	123	Limitations and Error Analysis of Strain on Flat Sheets Using DIC
		M. Sarangi, K. Hasija, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur