Introduction / Yingxin Zhou and Jian Zhao -- An overview of some recent progress in rock dynamics research / Jian Zhao --Split Hopkinson pressure bar tests of rocks : advances in experimental techniques and applications to rock strength and fracture / Kaiwen Xia, Feng Dai and Rong Chen --Modified Hopkinson bar technologies applied to the high strain rate rock tests / Ezio Cadoni and Carlo Albertini --Wave shaping by special shaped striker in SHPB tests / Xibing Li [and others] --Laboratory compressive and tensile testing of rock dynamic properties / Haibo Li, Junru Li and Jian Zhao --Penetration and perforation of rock targets by hard projectiles / Chong Chiang Seah [and others] --Incubation time based fracture mechanics and optimization of energy input in the fracture process of rocks / Yuri Petrov [and others] --Discontinuous approaches of wave propagation across rock joints / Xiaobao Zhao [and others] --Equivalent medium model with virtual wave source method for wave propagation analysis in jointed rock mses / Jianchun Li, Guowei Ma and Jian Zhao --Polycrystalline model for heterogeneous rock based on smoothed particle hydrodynamics method / Guowei Ma, Xuejun Wang and Lei He --Finite element method modeling of rock dynamic failure / Chun'an Tang and Yuefeng Yang --Discontinuum-based numerical modeling of rock dynamic fracturing and failure / Tohid Kazerani and Jian Zhao --Manifold and advanced numerical techniques for discontinuous dynamic computations / Gaofeng Zhao, Gen-Hua Shi and Jian Zhao --Earthquakes as a rock dynamic problem and their effects on rock engineering structures / Ömer Aydan [and others] --Constraining paleoseismic PGA using numerical analysis of structural failures in historic masonry structures : review of recent results / Yossef H. Hatzor and Gony Yagoda-Biran --Explosion loading and tunnel response / Yingxin Zhou --Rock support for underground excavations subjected to dynamic loads and failure / Charlie Chunlin Li.