- History of bar technology.

- Exercise on signal processing: from bar signals to engineering and true stress-strain curves.

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

- Exercise on verifying the results of the split Hopkinson bar 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.

- Dynamic increase factor of geomaterials.

- Current status and future directions in Split Hopkinson Bar technology.

- Framework of the Johnson-Cook 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.

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

- 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.

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

- Coupling scheme for materials exhibiting non-zero fracture strength.

- Framework of the Johnson-Cook damage-fracture model.

- Accounting for the varying nature of triaxiality during loading.

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

- Calibration of a coupled damage model for materials exhibiting non-zero fracture strength. 

- 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 – 09:30 Registration (08:30 – 09:30 for Day 1)

09:30 – 12:00 Morning session with Q&A and one coffee break.

12:00 – 13:20 Lunch break

13:20 – 17:30 Afternoon session with Q&A and two coffee breaks.