Program overview

TUESDAY MORNING, 29 JULY 1997

10:15 G1.01 Mechanism of Chemical Decomposition in a Shocked Condensed Explosive

Y.A. Gruzdkov (Washington State University)

10:45 G1.02 Temperatures and Hugoniots of Nitromethane Detonation Products*

C. S. Yoo, N. C. Holmes, P. C. Souers (LLNL)

11:00 G1.03 Equation of State Development and Temperature Measurements for Shocked Nitromethane.

J. M. Winey, M. D. Knudson, G. E. Duvall, Y. M. Gupta (Washington State University)

11:15 G1.04 The Development of a new Arrhenius based burn model for both homogeneous and heterogeneous explosives

M.D. Cook, P.J. Haskins (Defence Research Agency, Fort Halstead, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN14 7BP, UK)

11:30 G1.05 Shock to Detonation Transition in Homogeneous Explosive

Pascal Klebert (CEA)

10:15 G2.01 Response of Nonlinear Elastic Solids to Oblique Plate Impact

Mike Scheidler (Army Research Laboratory)

10:30 G2.02 Adiabatic Shear Band Formation in Intermetallic WHA at High Strain Rates and Elevated Temperatures

K. E. Duprey, R. J. Clifton (Brown University), A. Griffo, R. M. German (The Pennsylvania State University)

10:45 G2.03 Effect of Shear on Failure Waves in Shocked Soda Lime Glass

N. S. Brar (University of Dayton Research Institute, Dayton OH 45469-0182), M Mello, R. J. Clifton (Division of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912)

11:00 G2.04 Flow Behavior of Soda-Lime Glass at High Pressures and High Shear Rates

S. Sundaram, R.J. Clifton (Brown University)

11:15 G2.05 High Temperature Pressure-Shear Plate Impact Studies on OFHC Copper and Pure Tungsten Carbide

K. J. Frutschy, R. J. Clifton (Brown University)

11:30 G2.06 COMPRESSION-SHEAR STUDY OF GLASS REINFORCED POLYESTER

J. Michael Boteler (Army Research Laboratory)

11:45 G2.07 Crack resistance of aluminium composite under shock loading at different temperatures

S.A. Novikov, V.A. Pushkov, V.A. Sinitsyn (RFNC--VNIIEF), G.T. Gray III (LASL)

10:15 G3.01 Shock Temperatures and Melting of Iron

Thomas J. Ahrens, Kathleen G. Holland, George Q. Chen (California Institute of Technology)

10:30 G3.02 Stability of Strong Shocks in Metals

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

10:45 G3.03 Dislocation Mechanics Based Constitutive Equation Incorporating Dynamic Recovery and Applied to Thermomechanical Shear Instability

Frank J. Zerilli (Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head, Maryland 20640), Ronald W. Armstrong (University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742)

11:00 G3.04 Free Energy and Shock Compression of Diamond

A.M. Molodets, M.A. Molodets, S.S. Nabatov (Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, 142432, Russia)

11:15 G3.05 Equation of State for Metals at High Pressure and Temperature

I.V. Lomonosov (ICPh RAS), V.E. Fortov, K.V. Khishchenko, P.R. Levashov (HEDRC RAS)

11:30 G3.06 Shock compression of highly porous samples of copper, iron, nickel and their equation of state

L.F. Gudarenko, R.F. Trunin, M.V. Zhernokletov, G.V. Simakov, O.N. Gushchina (RFNC--VNIIEF)

11:45 G3.07 Hydrogen and Helium Thermophysical Properties under Multiple Shock Compression

V.E. Fortov, A.S. Filimonov, S.V. Kvitov, D.N. Nikolaev, V.I. Postnov, V.Ya. Ternovoi, A.V. Utkin (Institute of Chemical Physics in Chernogolovka, Moscow region, 142432, Russia)