The annual conference of the British Society for Strain Measurement (BSSM) will take place 29-31 August 2018 in Southampton, UK. We are organizing a track on ‘image-based high strain rate testing’ where the latest advances of the PhotoDyn project will be presented, as well a work from our partners and others researchers in the world. The deadlien for abstract submission is 15 February 2018. http://www.bssm.org/default.asp?p=273