Challenges in Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials, Volume 2: Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the second volume of eight from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of Experimental Mechanics, including papers in the following general technical research areas:
Metallic, Polymeric and Composite Materials
Effects of Extreme Environments including Radiation Resistance, Damage, and Aging
Challenges in Time-dependent Behavior Modeling of Low, Moderate and High Strain Rates
Effects of Inhomogeneities on the Time-Dependent Behavior
Time dependent granular materials
Composite, Hybrid and Multifunctional Materials
Challenges in Time-dependent Behavior Modeling Viscoelastoplasticity and Damage
Effects of Interfaces and Interphases on the Time-Dependent Behavior
Mechanics of materials from advanced manufacturing, such as additive manufacturing
Property characterization from AM
Process modeling and simulations of AM
Material design using AM
Time-dependent and Small-scale Effects in Micro/Nano-scale Testing.

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H. Jerry Qi, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. Bonnie Antoun, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, USA. Richard Hall, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, USA. Hongbing Lu, The Erik Johnson Schl of Eng, EC-38, University of Texas-Dallas, Dallas, USA. Alex Arzoumanidis, Psylotech, Inc., Evanston, USA. Meredith Silberstein, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA. Jevan Furmanski, ExxonMobil, Los Alamos, USA. Alireza Amirkhizi, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, USA. Joamin Gonzalez-Gutierrez, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.