- History of bar technology.

- Exercise on signal processing: from bar signals to stress vs. strain & strain rate vs. strain curves.

- Exercise on designing the Split Hopkinson Bar (SHB) Experiment Using the Strain Rate Equation.

- Exercise on verifying the results of the SHB experiment using the Strain Rate Equation.

- Exercise on dispersion correction using Shin's Pochhammer-Chree equation solver.

- Exercise on calibrating co, nu, E, and rho of the bar and frequency analysis.

- Friction correction in SHPB experiment.

- SHBs with dissimilar bar materials for soft materials.

- Dynamic increase factor of geomaterials.

- Challenges in using high-strain-rate torsion test results to calibrate constitutive and fracture models. 

- Current status and future directions in SHB technology.

- Framework of the Johnson–Cook (JC) constitutive model.

- Realities of more complicated constitutive models.

- Meaning of the reference strain rate and reference temperature.

- Realities and Illusions of high-temperature testing.

- Managing the Inelastic Heat Fraction (Taylor–Quinney Coefficient).

- Exercise on the calibration of A, B, n, C & m.

- Describing the stress upturn phenomenon by modifying the JC strain rate factor.

- Voce-Polynomial and Ludwik Polynomial models under JC framework and their fortran user subroutines.

- Effect of necking in a tensile test on equivalent, true, and engineering stress–strain curves.

-  Importance of accurate tensile test on damage–fracture model calibration (the topic in Day 3).

- Inverse calibration of C & m using the 'SHPB' test data.

-  How should we handle the A, B, n, C, and m values for a large element (approximately 1.5 cm) in large-scale structural analyses?

-  Current status and future directions in strain rate-dependent constitutive models and their calibration.

- Classification of fracture models. 

- Framework of the Johnson–Cook damage-fracture model  and Bao–Wierzbicki model.

- Detailed comparisons of  (1) the original JC damage–fracture model,  (2) Mat 15 and (3) GISSMO in LS-DYNA, and (4)  Progressive Damage–Fracture Model in ABAQUS under the damage initiation types of JC, ductile, shear, and MSDFLD.  

- Realities of coupled damage models for shell and bulk structures.

-  Accounting for the variable nature of triaxiality during loading when calibrating D1–D3.

- Exercise on the calibration of D1, D2, D3, D4, & D5.

- Coupling scheme for materials exhibiting non-zero fracture strength and its calibration.

- The necessity of modifying the first JC factor, involving D1–D3, to realistically simulate penetration/protection phenomena under conditions of highly negative triaxiality. 

- Inverse calibration of D4 & D5 using the 'SHPB' test data.

-  How should we handle the D1–D5 values for a large element (approximately 1.5 cm) in large-scale structural analyses?

- Current status and future directions in strain rate-dependent damage-fracture models and their calibration.

09:00–09:20 Registration (08:30 – 09:20 for Day 1)

09:20–12:00 Morning session with Q&A and one coffee break.

12:00–13:20 Lunch break (12:50–13:20: one or two oral presentations by course attendees as activities in the IC-3MS).

13:20–17:40 Afternoon session with Q&A and two coffee breaks.