Program overview

MONDAY AFTERNOON, 21 JULY 2003

13:30 D1.001 The Role of Shear in Shock Initiation of Explosives

Elizabeth Cart (NSWC Indina Head), Richard Lee, Charles (Steve) Coffey, Paul Gustavson (NSWC Indian Head)

13:45 D1.002 Effect of Shear Stress in Shock Initiation of PBX

J. Campos, I. Plaksin, J. Direito, D. Braga (LEDAP, University of Coimbra. PORTUGAL), C. S. Coffey (NWSC - Indian Head), NWSC - Indian Head/Coimbra Collaboration

14:00 D1.003 INVESTIGATION OF STEVEN IMPACT TEST USING A TRANSPORTATION HOOK PROJECTILE WITH GAUGED EXPERIMENTS AND 3D MODELING

Kevin S. Vandersall, Susarla S. Murty, Steven K. Chidester, Jerry W. Forbes, Frank Garcia, Daniel W. Greenwood, Craig M. Tarver (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550)

14:15 D1.004 Measuring the Energy Release of Low Amplitude Impact of High Explosive Events

J.W. Straight, D.J. Idar, L. Smith, M.A. Osborn, L.E. Viramontes, P.J. Chavez (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

14:30 D1.005 Grit Particle Enhanced Non-Shock Ignition of Explosives

Richard Browning, Paul Peterson, Edward Roemer, Richard Scammon (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

14:45 D1.006 The Role of Tip Geometry in the Initiation of Explosives by Shaped Charge Jet.

Hugh James (AWE, Aldermaston, UK)

13:30 D2.001 Shock compression of molecules with 1.5 angstrom resolution

Dana Dlott, James Patterson, Alexi Lagoutchev (School of Chemical Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

13:45 D2.002 Ultrafast spectroscopic investigation of shock compressed energetic polymer films

David S. Moore, Shawn D. McGrane, David J. Funk (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

14:00 D2.003 Vibrational Spectroscopy of Shocked Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate (PETN) Single Crystals

N. HEMMI, Z.A. DREGER, Y.A. GRUZDKOV, J.M. WINEY, Y.M. GUPTA (Inst. for Shock Physics, Wash. State Univ.)

14:15 D2.004 Time-resolved Raman spectroscopy of benzene derivatives under laser-driven shock compression

Akitaka Matsuda, Kazutaka Nakamura, Ken-ichi Kondo (Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology)

14:30 D2.005 High-Pressure Fluorescence and Optical Imaging of Anthracene Single Crystals: Effect of Nonhydrostaticity

Z.A. DREGER, E. BALASUBRAMANIAM, Y.M. GUPTA (Inst. for Shock Physics, Wash. State Univ.)

14:45 D2.006 Vibrational Spectra of Dense Molecular Fluids in a Laser-Heated DAC: Implications to Shock Compressed Fluids

Bruce Baer, Choong-Shik Yoo (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

13:30 D3.001 Ab initio calculations of the electronic structure of 1,1-diamino-2,2-dinitroethylene

Maija M. Kuklja (Division of Materials Research, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA 22230), Sergey N. Rashkeev (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 37235), Frank J. Zerilli (Research and Technology Department, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head, MD 20640)

13:45 D3.002 Shock Hugoniot and Melt Curve for a Modified Embedded Atom Method Model of Gallium

Frank J. Cherne (Los Alamos National Laboratory DX-2 Materials Dynamics), Michael I. Baskes (Los Alamos National Laboratory, MST-8 Structure and Property Relations), Timothy C. Germann (Los Alamos National Laboratory, X-7 Material Science), Ramon J. Ravelo (University of Texas El Paso, Department of Physics, El Paso, TX 79968), Kai Kadau (Los Alamos National Laboratory, T-11 Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics)

14:00 D3.003 Anharmonic thermoelasticity at high pressures for tantalum

Daniel Orlikowski, Per Soderlind, John A. Moriarty (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

14:15 D3.004 Large-scale Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Ejecta Formation

Timothy C. Germann, James E. Hammerberg, Brad Lee Holian (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545)

14:30 D3.005 Simulations of rapid pressure-induced solidification in molten metals

Mehul Patel, Frederick Streitz, James Glosli, John Moriarty (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

14:45 D3.006 Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Shock Convergence and Dynamic Void Growth

James Stölken (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Maria-Jose Caturla (University of Alicante), Alison Kubota (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

13:30 D4.001 Dynamic Compression by Design at LLNL Gas Gun

Jeffrey Nguyen (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

14:00 D4.002 Quasi-isentropic plane compression of matter at megabar pressures

Vladimir Ternovoi, Alexey Pyalling, Alexander Filimonov (Institute of Problem of Chemical Physics RAS)

14:15 D4.003 Isentropic Compression of Lead and Lead Alloy Using the Z Machine.

Stephen Rothman, Kenneth Parker (AWE Aldermaston, Reading, RG7 4PR, UK.), Jean-Paul Davis (Sandia National Lab., Albuquerque, NM 87185, USA.), James Palmer, John Maw (AWE Aldermaston, Reading, RG7 4PR, UK.)

14:30 D4.004 A Characteristics Code for Analysis of Isentropic Compression Experiments

John Maw (AWE, Aldermaston, Reading, RG7 4PR, Uk.)

14:45 D4.005 Study of near-critical point thermodynamics of molybdenum by isentropic expansion and isobaric heating

Dmitry Nikolaev, Andrei Emel Ryanov, Alexei Pyalling, Vladimir Ternovoi (Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics of RAS, Chernogolovka, Russia, 142432)