Program overview

THURSDAY AFTERNOON, 31 JULY 1997

13:30 P1.01 The Accuracy of VISAR Instrumentation

Lynn M. Barker (Valyn International, Albuquerque, NM)

13:45 P1.02 Simultaneous PVDF-VISAR Measurements on Quasi-Isentropic Loading with Graded Density Impactors

M. U. Anderson, L. C. Chhabildas, T. G. Trucano (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185)

14:00 P1.03 Analysis of Lateral Piezoresistance Gauge Measurements in Shocked Solids

Ruqiang Feng, Y.M. Gupta (Washington State University)

14:15 P1.04 Advances in Ferroelectric Polymers for Shock Compression Sensors

F. Bauer, H. Moulard (Institut Franco-Allemand de Recherches, Saint-Louis, France), G. Samara (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185^*^*)

14:30 P1.05 Electrical Conductivity of Shock-Compressed PVDF Films

V.V. Yakushev, T.I. Yakusheva (Institute of Chemical Physics in Chernogolovka RAS)

14:45 P1.06 Dynamic Electromechanical Characterization of the Ferroelectric Ceramic PZT 95/5

R. E. Setchell, L. C. Chhabildas, M. D. Furnish, S. T. Montgomery, G. T. Holman (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185)

13:30 P2.01 Solving Curved Detonation Riemann Problems

Bruce Bukiet (New Jersey Institute of Technology)

13:45 P2.02 An Equation of State for Detonation Products Incorporating Small Carbon Clusters

M. S. Shaw (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

14:00 P2.03 CHARME : a reactive model for pressed explosives using the pore and grain sizes distributions as parameters.

Gauthier Demol, Jean-Claude Goutelle, Patrice Mazel (DGA/Centre d'Etudes de Gramat)

14:15 P2.04 The Inclusion of Nozzling and Compaction Work in Two-Phase DDT Models

Keith A. Gonthier, Steven F. Son, Blaine W Asay (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 USA)

14:30 P2.05 Ab Initio Determination of the V of D of an OCTOL from its Crystal Structure Statistics

BCL Team, J. Brown, J. P. Curtis, P.R. Lee (DRA, Fort Halstead, UK)

14:45 P2.06 Air-Cushion Effect in the Short-Pulse Shock Initiation of Explosives

J. N. Fritz, J. E. Kennedy (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

13:30 P3.01 Shock Waves in Medicine

K. Takayama (Tohoku U.)

14:00 P3.02 Shock Induced Polarization in Some Liquids

Yoichiro Hironaka, Ken-Ichi Kondo (TIT)

14:15 P3.03 Athermal Annealing of Semiconductor Wafers

J. Grun, C. Manka, C. Hoffman, J. Meyer, O. Glembocki, R. Kaplan, S. Qadri, E. Skelton (Naval Research Laboratory), D. Donnelly, B. Covington (Sam Houston State University)

14:30 P3.04 Coatings debonding induced by confined laser shocks interpreted in terms of shock waves propagation.

M. Boustie, C. Seymarc, E. Auroux, T. De Resseguier (C.N.R.S./L.C.D. - E.N.S.M.A., Futuroscope - France)

14:45 P3.05 Comparison of H_2O and CO_2 Ices Under Hypervelocity Impact

Mark Burchell, Bryan Vaughan, John Zarnecki (Physics Dept., Univ. of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NR, United Kingdom), Jacek Leliwa-Kopystynski (University of Warsaw, Institute of Geophysics, ul. Pasteura 7, 02-093 Warszawa, Poland)