Dynamic Behavior of Materials

Dynamic Behavior of Materials: Fundamentals, Material Models, and Microstructure Effects provides readers with the essential knowledge and tools necessary to determine best practice design, modeling, simulation, and application strategies for a variety of materials while also covering the fundamentals of how material properties and behavior are affected by material structure and high strain rates. The book examines the relationships between material microstructure and consequent mechanical properties, enabling the development of materials with improved performance and more effective design of parts and components for high-rate applications. The first section of the book covers the fundamentals of dynamic material behavior, with chapters studying dynamic elasticity and wave propagation, dynamic plasticity of crystalline materials, ductile fracture, brittle fracture, adiabatic heating and strain localization, and response to shock loading. The second section analyzes various material characterization methods, such as the Hopkinson Bar Technique, the Taylor Impact Experiment, and different shock loading experiments. The concluding section features ten chapters covering recent advances in dynamic material behavior, looking at topics such as microstructure effects in metals and alloys in different environments, as well as the dynamic behaviors of nanocrystalline materials, bulk metallic glasses, additively manufactured materials, ceramics, concrete and concrete-reinforced materials, geomaterials, polymers, composites, and biomaterials. Each chapter is structured uniformly, starting with a chapter outline, learning objectives, a brief introduction to the fundamentals of the topic, methods and protocols, recent advances, applications and case studies, and an ending summary. Mathematical descriptions and structure-property modeling approaches are included throughout, as are detailed descriptions of the various aspects of dynamic material behavior. Manufacturing and processing insight that aid more effective material application and improved material design and structure is also featured. Focuses on the relationship between material microstructure and resulting mechanical responses Covers the fundamentals, characterization methods, modeling techniques, applications, and recent advances of the dynamic behavior of a broad array of materials Includes insight into manufacturing and processing techniques that enable more effective material design and application