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3 Aug 2012: Fig. 3a presents the measured responses for beams initially failing by face yield, together with photographs of the specimens after test. ... The differences between the three-points bend and the stretch-bend tests have been experimentally investigated

30 Jul 2012: The tensile tests were performed using a screw‐driven test machine at fixed displacement rate, ... wave propagation time of 0.5 µs for the yarn specimens of length 5 mm, as used in the highest rate tests. For comparison

20 Jul 2012: these specimens and then conducting tensile tests in a screw-driven test machine. ... The compression tests were also performed in the screw driven test machine with the loads and strain measured in a similar manner to that described for the tensile tests

2 Aug 2012: An oscilloscope measured and recorded the voltageversus time response during the compression tests. ... High strain rate compression test. Calibration of the SHPB system. Theory of measurements.

2 Aug 2012: delamination fracture tests, especially those featuring high-. resolution measurements of crack displacements and. ... to seat the specimen halves in the loading jig. 3.2. Shear tests.

29 Aug 2012: uniaxial tensile and compressive responses of the nano-. crystalline composites. Compression tests were performed. ... Instrumented nanoindentation. Observation of shear bands in uniaxial tests. Observation of shear bands.

2 Aug 2012: We test this hypothesis by comparing the indentationdisplacement dI with the total displacement d at the peak load, asfollows. ... equal to thosemeasured in the three-point bend tests on the clamped andsimply supported beams.

2 Aug 2012: The mass distribution ofthe test geometries is indicated for two choices of areal mass. ... 3. 3 Experimental Results. The three-point bending tests were conducted using a 100kN screw driven test machine with a constant cross-headvelocity of _d5103 mm/s.

3 Aug 2012: The compression tests were also performed inhe screw-driven test machine, with the loads and strain measuredn a similar manner to that described for the tensile tests. ... Measurement of Bend ResponseThe bend tests on the clamped and simply supported

6 Mar 2012: The compressive response of the sand slugs was measured in a screw-driven tests machine. ... The tests were conducted at an applied strain rate 3 -110 s .

2 Aug 2012: Consequently, ‘‘smaller is stronger”. The presence of strain gradients can be an inevitable consequence of the test configuration, regardless of the imposedboundary conditions: strain gradients are present in a beam under

2 Aug 2012: tests. Recently, Wei et al. (2007)have used a paddle-wheel apparatus to compare the blast re-sponses of sandwich and monolithic plates when subjected to anidentical water blast.

26 Sep 2012: these asperities progressively enlarge in their burner-rig tests. Nonetheless, the model.