Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2014 SEM fall conference and international symposium on intensive loading and its effects, october 19-22, 2014, beijing, china. The 46 papers are grouped as follows: chapter 1: plenary and invited talks; chapter 2: mechanical properties of materials;chapter 3: materials and structures under extreme loading conditions; chapter 4: computational experiments and simulation; chapter 5: advanced diagnostic and measurement methods
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