Contents 1 Effect of Coatings and Additives on the Water Absorption and Mechanical Characteristics of Additive Manufactured Nylon Polymers 1 James LeBlanc, Irine Chenwi, Julianna Martinez, Olivia Dube, Dillon Fontaine, Eric Warner, Tyler Chu, Arun Shukla, and Lewis Shattuck 2 Electrically Aligned Epoxy-Based Nanocomposites: Processing and Characterization 5 Rahman Julkarnyne M. Habibur and Gururaja Suhasini 3 Interfacial Characterization of Metal Wire Inlays for 3D Printed FDM Parts 13 Vereesh Ayyagari, Hugh A. Bruck, Amir H. Ohadi, and Michael M. Ohadi 4 Accelerated Mechanical Behavior Characterization of Structural Materials 23 J. Rathore, A. Imeri, E. Al Amiri, V. Shah, C. O’Brien, B. Wisner, and A. Kontsos 5 Visco-plastic and Damage Characterization of Sheet Metals for Railway Crash Applications 35 Valentina Arra`, Mattia Utzeri, Gianluca Chiappini, Marco Sasso, and Alberto Perticone 6 Design and Optimization of Shock Absorbers Made of Grade Density Foams 43 C. Sabbatini, G. Zandri, and M. Sasso 7 Design, Fabrication and Characterization of Layered Jamming Bistable Composite Structures for Assistive Robotics 51 Hugh A. Bruck, Supriya Shastry, and Oliver J. Myers 8 Assessing the Effects of Strain Rate, Print Orientation and Post Print Annealing in FDM PLA Specimens in an Undergraduate Materials Science Course 59 Matt Schaefer vii
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