Program overview

TUESDAY AFTERNOON, 22 JULY 2003

13:30 J1.001 Complete Equation of State for beta-HMX and Implications for Initiation

Thomas D Sewell, Ralph Menikoff (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

13:45 J1.002 Binder/HMX Interaction in PBX9501 at Elevated Temperature

Cheng K. Saw (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

14:00 J1.003 Morphology changes during thermal decomposition of PBX9501

Laura Smilowitz, Bryan Henson, Blaine Asay, Peter Dickson, Dave Oschwald, Jerry Romero, Gary Parker (LANL)

14:15 J1.004 Monitoring phase change in HMX during dropweight impact

Helen Czerski, Martin Greenaway, William Proud, John Field (Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK), Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group Team

14:30 J1.005 The Role of Binders in Controlling the Explosiveness of HMX/HTPB Compositions

Christopher Stennett, Malcolm D Cook, Peter J Haskins, Richard I Briggs, Andrew D Wood (Qinetiq, Fort Halstead, Sevenoaks, Kent , TN14 7BP, UK), Philip J Cheese (DOSG, Abbey Wood, Bristol, UK)

14:45 J1.006 Measurement of the specific area of HMX and PBX 9501 by physical adsorption

Bryan Henson (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Laura Smilowitz, Blaine Asay, Jerry Romero, David Oschwald, Peter Dickson

13:30 J2.001 High-speed multi-wavelength pyrometry and emissivity measurements of shocked metals

D. Partouche-Sebban (Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, 91680 Bruyères Le Châtel, France)

14:00 J2.002 Determination of the Deformation Potentials of GaN Using Shock Wave Compression

M.D. MCCLUSKEY, H.Y. PENG, Y.M. GUPTA (Inst. for Shock Physics, Wash. State Univ.)

14:15 J2.003 The Effect of Piezoelectric Fields on the Optical Absorption of Shocked GaN

H.Y. PENG, M.D. McCLUSKEY, Y.M. GUPTA (Inst. for Shock Physics, Wash. State Univ.)

14:30 J2.004 R3-Dimensional Penetration Measurements Using Digital Speckle Photography

Helen Prentice, Stephen Grantham, William Proud, John Field (Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group, Cavnedish Laboratory, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK), Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group Team

14:45 J2.005 Fiberless Push-Pull Line VISAR

D.J. ROBINSON, K.A. ZIMMERMAN, J.R. ASAY (Inst. for Shock Physics, Wash. State Univ.)

13:30 J3.001 Simulating shock propagation in defective metals

E.M. Bringa, M. Duchaine, M. DeKoning, D. Kalantar, B.A. Remington (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore CA 94550 USA), P. Erhart (TU Darmstadt, Fachbereich Materialwissenschaft, Petersenstr. 23, D-64287 Darmstadt), B.D. Wirth (Nuclear Engineering Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1730), M.J. Caturla (Departament de Fisica Aplicada, Universitat d'Alacant, E-03690 Alacant, Spain)

13:45 J3.002 The Interaction of Dislocations and Radiation-induced Obstacles at High-strain Rate

Jennifer Young (Chemistry and Materials Science Directorate,Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Brian Wirth (Nuclear Engineering Department, University of California Berkeley)

14:00 J3.003 Molecular Dynamic Simulations of Orientation Dependence of Shocks in Solids

Sergey Zybin (Department of Chemistry, The George Washington University, Washington D.C. 20052)

14:30 J3.004 Molecular dynamics study of non-reacting shock waves in hydrocarbon molecular crystals

S.V. Zybin (The George Washington University, Washington D.C. 20052), M.L. Elert (U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD 21402), Carter T. White (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C. 20375)

14:45 J3.005 Shock waves and solitary waves in bcc crystals

Johannes Roth (Institut f.Theoretische u. Angewandte Physik, Universitaet Stuttgart)

13:30 J4.001 MEASUREMENT OF EQUATION OF STATE OF SILICONE ELASTOMER

Gary Haining, Darren Salisbury, Ron Winter (AWE, Aldermaston, Reading, Berks, RG1 6AJ, UK), Kostas Tsembelis (PCS, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Rd., Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK)

13:45 J4.002 Longitudinal and lateral stress measurements in shock loaded polyether ether ketone

J.C.F. Millett (Defence Academy, Cranfield University), G.T. Gray (Los Alamos National Laboratory), N.K. Bourne (Defence Academy, Cranfield University), Cranfield University Collaboration, Los Alamos Collaboration

14:00 J4.003 Measurements of sound speed in zinc in the negative pressure region

Galina S. Bezrouchko, Gennady I. Kanel, Sergey V. Razorenov (Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Chernogolovka, Russia)

14:15 J4.004 Experimental study of laser shock-released states of iron into a LiF window.

Gael Huser, Alessandra Benuzzi-Mounaix, Michel Koenig, Bernard Faral, Emeric Henry, Tommaso Vinci (Laboratoire LULI, CNRS-Ecole Polytechnique), Dimitri Batani, Micaela Tomasini, Bartolomeo Telaro (Dipartimento di Fisica, University of Milan-bicocca), François Guyot (Laboratoire de MINERALOGIE-CRISTALLOGRAPHIE, Université Jussieu)

14:30 J4.005 HUGONIOT DATA AND SHOCK TEMPERATURE OF DENSE HELIUM UNDER SHOCK COMPRESSION

qifeng chen (Lab. of Computational Physics, Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, P.O. Box 8009-26,Beijing 100088, PR China), lingcang cai (Lab. for Shock Wave and Detonation Physics Research, Institute of Fluid Physics, P.O. Box 919-102, Mianyan, Sichuan, 621900 PR China)

14:45 J4.006 Density and Temperature Dependence of the Effective Pair Potential in Dense Helium

Fusheng Liu, Chunling Tian (Laboratory of High Pressure Physics, Southwest Jiaotong University, Sichuan 610041, P.R. China), Lingcang Cai (Lab. of Shock Wave and Detonation Physics, CAEP, Sichuan 610003, P.R. China), Fuqian Jing (Laboratory of High Pressure Physics, Southwest Jiaotong University, Sichuan 610041, P.R. China)