Journal of Dynamic Behavior of Materials: A New Forum for Knowledge Exchange on Dynamic Material Response, High Strain-Rate Effects, Shock, and Materials Under Extreme Loading

We are excited to introduce the Journal of Dynamic Behavior of Materials (JDBM) as the new journal of the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM). We wish to invite you to submit your best work on the study of the dynamic behavior of materials to the journal and help in getting the word out to your colleagues. Information on the journal can be found at http://springer.com/40870. The field of dynamic behavior of materials is undergoing a revolution with increasing interdisciplinary focus and unprecedented new level of diagnosis at the bench scale and numerous user facilities. Classic loading techniques including split Hopkinson pressure (Kolsky) bar, gas/ powder guns, and high-explosives are being pushed to increased levels of precision, linked with new and novel diagnostics enabling previously unattainable levels of in situ measurement combined with advanced high resolution and three-dimensional post-mortem observation. National User Facilities are enhancing their capacities for studying materials in extremes with new facilities being developed ranging from SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source, the Dynamic Compression Sector at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory, the Z-Machine at Sandia National Laboratories, the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Matter-Radiation Interactions in Extremes at Los Alamos National Laboratory. An exciting collaboration at GSI in Darmstadt is incorporating expertise from pRad and LANSCE at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the USA and the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics in Russia using the PRIOR microscope with great potential for studying dynamic materials processes. The Diamond Light Source located at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in the UK has been offering great levels of postmortem investigation of damage from dynamic loading. Exciting capabilities exist at these and other facilities around the world to advance the state-of-the-art for studies of dynamic behavior of materials. Advances in modeling & simulation of dynamic loading and material response have paralleled these experimental advances. Continued evolution in computing hardware is enabling calculations with extraordinary fidelity in representation of highly coupled complex physics. Great advances have been made in density functional theory, molecular dynamics, and dislocation dynamics based material models. Simulations based on these theories have historically had to be performed at very high strain-rates and in very short time and length scales. Advances in these models and the hardware on which these simulations are performed have brought them into line with the regimes of many platforms for dynamic experiments. New theories and models of material behavior are being developed to take advantage of understanding material at the mesoscale. Continuum level constitutive models are being proposed and developed with greater levels of physical underpinning and predictive ability. The state-of-the art in modeling & simulation and experiments along with the interdisciplinary approach to modern science and engineering have lead to significant payoff from hybrid experimental-computational approaches. Advances in simulation are enabling the development and optimization of experiments, with better understanding of the underlying physics and data capture. Conversely, advances in experimentation are pushing better models, codes, and simulations. The JDBM offers a single source to bring this broad, vibrant international community together. This peer E. N. Brown (&) Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA e-mail: en_brown@lanl.gov