Chap1. Effects of Adiabatic Heating Estimated from Tensile Tests with Continuous Heating -- Chap2. Effect of Pre-Strain, Processing Conditions, and Impact Velocity on Energy Dissipation in Silicone Foams and Rubber -- Chap3. Strain Rate Sensitivity of Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability Experiments for Metal Strength -- Chap4. Impact Response of Density Graded Cellular Polymers -- Chap5. Dynamic Mixed-mode Crack Initiation and Growth in PMMA and Polycarbonate -- Chap6. Dynamic Reponse of Alumina Ceramics under Brazilian Disc Test Conditions -- Chap7. Digital Gradient Sensing Method to Visualize and Quantify Crack-tip Deformations in Soda-lime Glass under Static and Dynamic Loading -- Chap8. Construction of Phase Diagrams of Mg-Zn with Selected Rare Earth (R.E) Elements -- Chap9. High Strain Rate Transverse Compression Response of Ballistic Single Fibers -- Chap10. WIAMan ATD Polymeric Material Characterization for Under-Body Blast Environment Simulation -- Chap11. Investigation of Transmission of a Shock Wave through Thin Films -- Chap12. Experimental Testing and Computational Analysis of Viscoelastic Wave Propagation in Polymeric Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar -- Chap13. Mode I Rigid Double Cantilever Beam Test and Analysis Applied to Structural Adhesives -- Chap14. Brute Force Ceramic Constitutive Model Parameterization -- Chap15. High-Strain Rate Compressive Behavior of a “Natural Soil” Under Uniaxial Strain State -- Chap16. Latest Results for Elasto-plastic Identification at High Rates using Inertial Impact -- Chap17. Mesoscale Modeling of Porous Materials Using New Methodology for Fracture and Frictional Contact in the Material Point Method -- Chap18. Underwater Blast Response of Weathered Carbon Composite Plates -- Chap19. Characterization of a Visco-hyperelastic Synthetic gel for Ballistic Impacts Assessment -- Chap20. On the Microstructural Aspects of Shock Induced Failure in Magnesium Alloys -- Chap21. High Speed Imaging Techniques To Study Effects of Pressure Waves From Detonating Explosive Charges on Biological Tissues -- Chap22. Computational Study on the Driver Section Design of an Explosively-Driven Conical Shock Tube -- Chap23. Unidirectional Carbon-Epoxy Composite Plates Subjected to Extreme Marine Environments -- Chap24. Hybrid Computational and Experimental Approach to Identify the Dynamic Initiation Fracture Toughness at High Strain Rate -- Chap25. High-rate Mechanical Response of Aluminum using Miniature Kolsky Bar Techniques -- Chap26. Time-Resolved Penetration of Metal Alloys During Ballistic Impacts -- Chap27. Compaction Wave Propagation Characteristics in Polymer Bonded Explosives at Macro-Meso Scale -- Chap28. Direct Compression Loading Using the Pre-Stretched Bar Technique – Application to High Strains under Moderate Strain Rates -- Chap29. Compaction Wave Characteristics of Polymeric Foams under Dynamic Loading -- Chap30. Comparison of Numerical Simulations with Experiments of Blast-induced Pressure Wave Impact on a Surrogate Head Model -- Chap31. Pressure Sensing in Clay: a New Metric for Characterizing the Ballistic Backface Deformation Response of Personnel Protection Equipment -- Chap32. Evaluation of Concrete Penetration Resistance Using Small Caliber Bullets -- Chap33. Dynamic Analysis of a Bi-Stable Buckled Structure for Vibration Energy Harvester -- Chap34. Effects of Strain Rate on Mechanical Properties and Fracture Mechanisms in a Dual Phase Steel -- Chap35. Nonlinear and Inertant Acoustic Metamaterials and their Device Implications -- Chap36. Evaluation of Stress Equilibrium in Dynamic Tests on Agglomerated Cork -- Chap37. High Strain Rate Induced Phase Transition of Polymer.