9 Transition to the Dynamic Behaviour of Engineering Materials -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Response Behaviour of Metals under Dynamic Loading -- 9.3 Metallurgical Effects -- 9.4 References -- 9.5 Further reading -- 10 Plastic Instability and Localization Effects -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Onset of Shear Banding -- 10.3 Strain-Rate and Temperature Effects -- 10.4 Bifurcation Analysis for Specific Constitutive Equations -- 10.5 Post-bifurcation Analysis -- 10.6 Plastic Instabilities in Specific Problems -- 10.7 Instability Propagation (Metallic and Polymeric Materials) -- 10.8 Flow Localization of Thermo-Elasto-Viscoplastic Solids -- 10.9 Effect of Material Rate History -- 10.10 Three-Dimensional Effects -- 10.11 Problems -- 10.12 References -- 11 Elastic Wave Propagation -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Elastic vs. Inelastic Waves -- 11.3 Elastic Wave Propagation -- 11.4 Reflection and Refraction of Waves at a Plane Interface -- 11.5 Wave Propagation in Bounded Elastic Solids -- 11.5.9. Stress waves in plates -- 11.6 Study Problems -- 11.7 Problems -- 11.8 References -- 11.9 Further Reading -- 12 Dynamic Plastic Behaviour -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 The Dynamic Plasticity Problem -- 12.3 Dependence of the Wave Equation and its Characteristics on the Response Behaviour of the Material -- 12.4 The Problem ofInstantaneous Impact -- 12.5 Determination of the LoadinglUnloading Boundary -- 12.6 Plastic Shock Wave -- 12.8 Transition to Dynamic Thermoplasticity -- 12.9 References -- 12.10 Further Reading -- 13 Characterization of Linear Viscoelastic Response Using a Dynamic System Approach -- 13. 1 Introduction -- 13.2 Dynamic System Identification Methods -- 13.3 Discrete-time System Analysis as Based on the Time-rate of the Input Signal -- 13.4 Extension of the Model to Include the Instantaneous Response Behaviour -- 13.5 References -- 13.6 Further Reading -- 14 Viscoelastic Waves and Boundary Value Problem -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Internal Friction and Dissipation -- 14.3 Viscoelastic Wave Motion -- 14.4 Wave Propagation in Semi-Infinite Media -- 14.5 The Wave Equation in Linear Viscoelasticity as Based on Boltzmann's Superposition Principle -- 14.6 The Wave Propagation Problem as Based on the Correspondence Principle -- 14.7 Nonlinear Viscoelastic Wave Propagation -- 14.8 Acceleration Waves -- 14.9 Shock Waves -- 14.10 Thermodynamic Influences -- 14.11 Study Problems -- 14.12 Transition to the Viscoelastic Boundary Value Problem -- 14.13 Study Problems -- 14.14 References -- 14.15 Further Reading -- 15 Transition to the dynamic behaviour of structured and heterogeneous materials -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 Influences of Material Properties on Dynamic Behaviour -- 15.3 "Discontinuous" vs. "Continuous" Fibre-Reinforcement -- 15.4 Sheet Molding Compounds (SMC) -- 15.5 The Trade-off between Damping and Stifthess in the Design of Discontinuous Fibre-Reinforced Composites -- 15.6 Study Problems -- 15.7 References -- 15.8 Further Reading -- 16 The Stochastic Micromechanical Approach to the Response Behaviour of Engineering Materials -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 Probabilistic Micromechanical Response -- 16.3 The Stochastic Micromechanical Approach to the Response Behaviour of Polycrystalline Solids -- 16.4 References -- 16.5 Further Reading -- 17 Intelligent Materials - An Overview -- 17.1 Introduction -- 17.2 Definition ofan Intelligent Material -- 17.3 The Concept ofIntelligence in Engineering Materials -- 17.4 Artificial Intelligence in Materials -- 17.5 Optical Fibres as Sensors -- 17.6 Shape Memory Alloys (SMA) -- 17.7 Shape Memory Polymers -- 17.8 Electro-Rheological Fluids -- 17.9 References -- 18 Pattern Recognition and Classification Methodology for the Characterization of Material Response States -- 18.1 Introduction -- 18.2 The Acousto-Ultrasonics Technique -- 18.3 Fundamentals of the Design of Pattern-Recognition (PR) Systems -- 18.4 Illustrative Applications -- 18.5 Design and Testing ofa Pattern Recognition System -- 18.6 References -- 18.7 Further Reading -- Appendix D The z-Transform -- D.1 Introduction -- D.2 Properties of the z-Transform -- D.3 Relations between the z-Transform and Fourier Transform -- Examples -- D.4 Regions of Convergence for the z-Transform -- D.5 The Inverse z-Transform -- D.6 Problems -- D.7 References -- D.8 Further Reading -- Cumulative Subject Index.