Program overview

MONDAY MORNING, 28 JULY 1997

10:15 C1.01 High Strain Rate Testing of AP/Al/HTPB Solid Propellant

Henry J. John Jr. (Naval Air Warfare Center - Weapons Division Detonation Sciences Section Code 4B3300D China Lake, Ca. 93555-6100), Frank E. Hudson III, Rodney L. Robbs (Naval Air Warfare Center - Weapons Division Detonation Sciences Section Code 4B3300D China Lake, Ca. 93555-6100)

10:30 C1.02 Initiation of Crystalline Explosives by Impact

Charles S. Coffey (NSWC)

10:45 C1.03 Shear Band Formation in Plastic-Bonded Explosives (PBX)

Thomas N. Dey, James N. Johnson (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

11:00 C1.04 Direct Measurement of Strain Field Evolution During Dynamic Deformation of an Energetic Material

B.W Asay, B.F. Henson, D.J. Funk (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

11:15 C1.05 Deformation Potentials as Measures of Ignition Sensitivities

John Gilman (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095)

11:30 C1.06 Characterization of HMX Particles in PBX 9501

C. B. Skidmore, S. F. Son, B. W Asay (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

11:45 C1.07 Particle Characterization of Pressed Granular HMX

N. J. Burnside, S. F. Son, C. B. Skidmore, B. W Asay (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

10:15 C2.01 Measurement of the shear strength and damage kinetics of silicon carbide

Ian Pickup, Antony Barker (DRA)

10:30 C2.02 Measurement of Shock-Wave Structure of LiF Single Crystal by the VISAR

Tsutomu Mashimo, Masato Nakamura, Masakazu Uchino (High Energy Rate Laboratory, Kumamoto University)

10:45 C2.03 X-ray Diffraction Measurements in Shocked LiF Single Crystals

Paulo Rigg, Kurt Zimmerman, Eugene Zaretsky, Y.M. Gupta (Washington State University)

11:00 C2.04 Polyurethane Behavior in Plane Impact with Velocities from 10 to 400 m/sec

Dimitry Tsukinovsky, Eugene Zaretsky, Igor Rutkevich (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev P.O.Box 653, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel)

11:15 C2.05 Failure Waves in Cylindrical Glass Bars

James U. Cazamias (IAT, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics and Dept. of Physics-UT), Stephan J. Bless (IAT-UT), Michael P. Marder (Center for Nonlinear Dynamics and Dept. of Physics-UT)

11:30 C2.06 Damage Identification and Quantification in Confined Ceramic Rods and Plates

Y. Xu, G. Yuan, H.D. Espinosa (Purdue University, W. Lafayetter, IN 47907-1282)

10:15 C3.01 Equation of State Measurements of Hydrogen and Deuterium up to 2 Mbar

G. W. Collins (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94551, USA)

10:45 C3.02 High Accuracy EOS Experiments Using the AWE HELEN Laser.

S.D. Rothman, A.M. Evans (AWE Aldermaston, Reading, RG7 4PR, UK)

11:00 C3.03 Megabar Pressure Waves Through Low Density Foams And Low Density Foams Filled With Liquid Deuterium(Supported By U.S. Department of Energy)

J.D. Sethian (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC.), S. E. Bodner, J.P. Dahlburg, K.A. Gerber, E.A. McLean, S.P. Obenschain, C.J. Pawley, V. Serlin, C.A. Sullivan, J.H. Gardner (Laboratory for Computational Physics, Naval Research Laboratory), Y. Chan (Science Applications International Corporation, McLean, VA), A.V. Deniz, T. Lehecka

11:15 C3.04 Modeling of Megabar Pressure Waves Through Low Density Foams Filled with Liquid Deuterium

J.P. Dahlburg (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory), J.H. Gardner (LCPamp;FD, Naval Research Laboratory), J.D. Sethian, D. Colombant (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory)

11:30 C3.05 INVESTIGATIONS OF SHOCK COMPRESSED PLASMA PARAMETERS BY INTERACTION WITH MAGNETIC FIELD.

V.B. Mintsev, S.V. Dudin, V.K. Gryaznov, N.S. Shilkin, A.E. Ushnurtsev , V.E. Fortov (Institute of Chemical Physics in Chernogolovka, Russia)