Mechanical Characterization of 304L-VAR Stainless Steel in Tension with a Full Coverage from Low, Intermediate, to High Strain Rates -- Crack Branching in Soda-Lime Glass: Optical Measurement of Precursors Using Digital Gradient Sensing -- Optical Investigation of Quasi-Static and Dynamic Crack Growth in Cellulose Nanopaper -- Expanding Inertial Microcavitation Rheometry to Cover Large Material Stretches in Soft Materials -- Development of a Kolsky Bar Shaft-Loaded Blister Test to Evaluate Dynamic Behavior of Adhesives -- Constitutive Behavior of AA7475-T7351 at High Strain Rate and Elevated Temperatures -- Experimental Investigation of the Failure Rate Dependency of Composite Materials using Off-Axis Tensile Tests -- Observations of Velocity-Dependent Drag and Bearing Stress in Sand Penetration -- Ultra- Fast and Tunable Liquid Nanofoam Load Limiter -- Dynamic Rugae Strain Localizations and Instabilities in Soft Viscoelastic Materials During Inertial Microcavitation -- Spall Response of Electroplated Gold Samples -- Simulated Construction of FeMnAlC Alloy System Phase Diagram and Study of its Dynamic Characterization -- Developing a Methodology for Testing of Hearing Protection Systems -- An Innovative Experimental Approach for the Assessment of Composite Panel Ballistic Limit -- Development of a Micro Tensile Kolsky Bar -- Analysis of the Explosively Driven Expanding Ring Tension Test -- Static and Dynamic Mechanical Characterization of a Spark Plasma Sintered B6O-B4C Composite -- The Development of Split Hopkinson Tension-Torsion Bar for the Understanding of Complex Stress States at High Rate -- High Strain Rate Characterization and Impact Analysis of Fibre Reinforced Composites.