Reflection-mode Digital Gradient Sensing Technique for Experimental Fracture Mechanics -- Experimental and Computational Investigation of Out-of-Plane low Velocity Impact Behaviour of CFRP Composite Plates -- Prediction of Incipient Nano-scale Rupture for Thermosets in Plane Stress -- Effect of Degree of Cure on Damage Development in FRP -- Stochastic Discrete Damage Simulations of Laminate Composites -- Development of a Specimen for in-situ Diffraction Planar Biaxial Experiments -- V-Notched Rail Test for Shear-dominated Deformation of Ti-6Al-4V -- A statistical/computational/experimental Approach to Study the Microstructual Morphology of Damage -- Prediction of Ductile Fracture Through Small-size Notched Tensile Specimens -- Development of a Generalized Entropic Framework for Damage Assessment -- Modelling of Experimental Observations of Electrical Response of CNT Composites -- Effect of Micro-cracks on the Thermal Conductivity of Particulate Nanocomposite -- Fatigue Tests on Fiber Coated Titanium Implant- Bone Cement Interfaces -- Fatigue Behavior of Carburized Steel at Long Lives -- Fatigue Behavior of Fluid End Crossbore Using a Coupon-based Approach -- Fatigue in FCC Polycrystalline Metals - Numerical and Experimental Study -- Notch Strain Analysis of Crossbore Geometry -- Keynote: Opto-acoustic and Neutron Emissions from Fracture and Earthquakes -- Field Theoretical Description of Shear Bands -- Measuring the Effective Fracture Toughness of Heterogeneous Materials -- Fatigue Testing and Local Strain Analysis of Nitinol Devices -- Environmental Protection by the Opto-acoustic and Neutron Emission Seismic Precursors -- Neutron Emissions From Hydrodynamic Cavitation -- From Dark Matter to Brittle Fracture -- Compositional Variations in Palladium Electrodes Exposed to Electrolysis -- Strain-rate-dependent Yield Criteria for Composite Laminates -- Experimental Fatigue Specimen and Finite Element Analysis for Characterization of Dental Composites -- Experimental Fatigue Specimen and Finite Element Analysis for Characterization of Dental Composites -- Compression Testing of Micro-scale Unidirectional Polymer Matrix Composites -- Crack Analysis of Wood Under Climate Variations -- Numerical Fracture Analysis Under Temperature Variations by Energetic Method -- Use of a Multiplexed Photonic Doppler Velocimetry (MPDV) System to Study Plastic Deformation of Metallic Steel Plates in High Velocity Impact -- In-Service Preload Monitoring of Bolted Joints Subjected to Fatigue Loading using a Novel 'MoniTorque' Bolt -- Fatigue Behavior of Novel Hybrid Fastening System With Adhesive Inserts.

Fracture, Fatigue, Failure and Damage Evolution, Volume 8 represents the eighth of nine volumes of technical papers presented at the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) 15th International Congress & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, held at Costa Mesa, California, June 8-11, 2015.. The full set of proceedings also includes volumes on: Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Challenges in Mechanics of Time Dependent Materials, Advancement of Optical Methods in Experimental Mechanics, Experimental and Applied Mechanics, 16th International Symposium on MEMS and Nanotechnology,� International Symposium on the Mechanics of Composite and Multi-functional Materials,� 5th International Symposium on the Mechanics of Biological Systems and Materials, International Symposium on the Mechanics of Composite and Multi-functional Materials; and Residual Stress,� Thermomechanics & Infrared Imaging, Hybrid Techniques and Inverse Problems.