Program overview

WEDNESDAY MORNING, 23 JULY 2003

Session N1. Energetic Materials and Detonation VIII.

Wednesday morning, 09:30, Multnomah, Doubletree Lloyd Center

09:30 N1.001 Detonation Propagation in Shocked-Compressed Liquid Explosives
Oren Petel, Vincent Tanguay, Andrew Higgins (McGill University), Akio Yoshinaka, Fan Zhang (Defence Ramp;D Canada-Suffield)
09:45 N1.002 Proton Radiography Experiments on Shocked High Explosive Products
Eric N. Ferm, Steve Dennsion, Robert Lopez, Kathy Prestridge, John P. Quintana, Camilo Espinoza, Gary Hogan, Nick King, Julian D. Lopez, Frank Merrill, Kevin Morley, Christopher L. Morris, Peter Pazuchanics, Andy Saunders (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545), Stuart A. Baker, Rodger Liljestrand, Richard T. Thompson (Bechtel Nevada, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545)
10:00 N1.003 Influence of thermal cycles on a TATB composition sensitivity
Laurent Gautier, Robert Belmas, Alain Bry, Didier Poullain, Didier Picart (CEA/Le Ripault BP 16 37260 MONTS (FRANCE)), Christian Le Gallic (Centre d'Etudes de Gramat 46500 GRAMAT (FRANCE))

Session N2. Materials Related Phenomena II: Ferroelectrics.

Wednesday morning, 09:30, Holladay, Doubletree Lloyd Center

09:30 N2.001 From Ferroelectric to Quantum Paraelectric: KTa1-xNbxO3 (KTN), a Model System
George Samara (Sandia National Laboratories)
09:45 N2.002 Microstructural Effects on the Shock Response of PZT 95/5
Robert E. Setchell, Bruce A. Tuttle, James A. Voigt (Sandia National Laboratories)
10:00 N2.003 Geometry controlled electric current profile from PZT shocked ceramics
Stephen Hatcher, Andrei Ludu (Northwestern State University)

Session N3. Special Topics.

Wednesday morning, 09:30, Oregon, Doubletree Lloyd Center

Session N4. Phase Transitions III.

Wednesday morning, 09:30, Idaho/Washington, Doubletree Lloyd Center

09:30 N4.001 Magnetic Particle Velocity Measurements of Shocked Teflon
D. L. Robbins, S. A. Sheffield, R. R. Alcon (Los Alamos National Lab.)
09:45 N4.002 On the impact properties of polytetrafluoroethylene, PTFE (Teflon)
Philip Rae, George (Rusty) Gray (MST-8, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 87544, USA), Neil Bourne (Centre for Dynamic Response, Cranfield University Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, Shrivenham Swindon SN6 8LA, UK)
10:00 N4.003 Hugoniot of C_60 fullerite.
Vladimir Milyavskiy, Aleksander Utkin, Andrey Zhuk, Vladimir Fortov (Institute for High Energy Densities RAS, Russia), Eugene Zaretsky (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
10:15 N4.004 Phase transition of shock-compressed AlON
Toshimori Sekine, Xijun Li, Tokamichi Kobayashi, Yasuyuki Yamashita (Advanced Materials Lab., National Institute for Materials Science), Parimal Patel, James McCauley (U.S. Army Research Lab.)