Program overview

MONDAY AFTERNOON, 28 JUNE 1999

Session C1. Thermal Behavior of Energetic Materials.

Monday afternoon, 13:30, Ballroom I, Cliff Lodge Convention Center

13:30 C1.01 Measurement of phase change and thermal decomposition kinetics during cookoff of PBX9501
Peter Dickson, Blaine Asay, Bryan Henson, Chris Fugard (LANL)
13:45 C1.02 Measurement of Convective Burning Rates in Gaps of PBX 9501
H. Laine Berghout, Steven F. Son, Blaine W Asay (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545)
14:00 C1.03 A new mechanism for the deflagration-to-detonation transition in ultrafine granular explosives
M.J. Gifford (Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, UK.), P.E. Luebke (Colebrand, UK.), J.E. Field (Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, UK.)
14:15 C1.04 Modeling Compaction-Induced Energy Localization in Granular HMX
K.A. Gonthier (Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas 77710), S.F. Son (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545)
14:30 C1.05 The Laser-Induced Decomposition of TATB at Static High Pressures
Gerardo. I. Pangilinan, Suhithi M. Peiris, Thomas P. Russell (High-Energy Materials Section, Naval Research Lab, Washington DC.)
14:45 C1.06 Thermal Decomposition of Energetic Materials
P. Cardão, J.C. Gois, J. Campos (Mec. Eng. Dept. - Lab. Energetics and Detonics, F.C.T. - University of Coimbra, 3030 Coimbra, Portugal)

Session C2. Water and Nitrogen EOS.

Monday afternoon, 13:30, Ballroom II, Cliff Lodge Convention Center

13:30 C2.01 Characterization of shock waves induced by laser in water confinement regime
Laurent Berthe, Patrice Peyre, Remy Fabbro, Eric Bartnicki, Arnaud Sollier (CLFA/LALP)
13:45 C2.02 Electrical Conductivity of Water at 70-220 GPa
R. Chau, A. C. Mitchell, W. J. Nellis, R. Minich (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
14:00 C2.03 Water shock Hugoniot measurement up to less than 1 GPa
Kunihito Nagayama, Yasuhito Mori, Katsuya Shimada (Kyushu University), Motonao Nakahara (Fukuoka Institute of Technology)
14:15 C2.04 Electrical conductivity and electrochemical phenomena in water shocked to the 110 GPa pressure range
V.V. Yakushev, V.E. Fortov, N.A. Kovalchuk, V.I. Postnov, T.I. Yakusheva (Institute for Chemical Physics Research RAS, Chernogolovka, 142432 Russia)
14:30 C2.05 A Reinterpretation of Reflected Wave N_2 Data.
J.D. Johnson (LANL, Los Alamos NM 87545.)
14:45 C2.06 Liquid nitrogen thermodynamic and conductivity properties under multiple shock compression.
Alexandr Filimonov, Sergei Kvitov, Dmitry Nikolaev (), Vladimir Ternovoi (Institute for Chemical Physics Research, Chernogolovka, 142432 Russia)

Session C3. Optical Diagnostics.

Monday afternoon, 13:30, Ballroom III, Cliff Lodge Convention Center

13:30 C3.01 Measurements of Spatially Resolved Velocity Variations in Shock Compressed Heterogeneous Materials Using a Line-Imaging Velocity Interferometer
Wayne M. Trott (Sandia National Laboratories)
14:00 C3.02 Multi-Beam VISARs for Simultaneous Velocity vs. Time Measurements
Lynn M. Barker (Valyn International)
14:15 C3.03 Simultaneous Reflectometry, Velocimitry, and Emissivity Measurements of Laser-Driven Shock Waves
A. Forsman, G. Kyrala, R. Johnson, A. Hauer (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
14:30 C3.04 Time- and space-resolved optical probing of the shock risetime in thin aluminium films
D.S. Moore (DX Division, Los Alamos National Lab), K.A. Gahagan, S.J. Buelow, R.L. Rabie, D.J. Funk, S.A. Sheffield, L.L. Davis, T. Lippert, H. Brand (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM), J.W. Nicholson (Phillips Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM)
14:45 C3.05 Optical Interferometry Diagnostics in Laser-Driven Equation of State Experiments
D.M. Gold, P.M. Celliers, G.W. Collins, L.B. Da Silva, R.C. Cauble (LLNL), Nova EOS Experiments Team

Session C4. Mechanical Properties (MP) - Metals II.

Monday afternoon, 13:30, Superior Room, Cliff Lodge Convention Center

13:30 C4.01 Long Rod Penetration Test of Hot Isostatically Pressed Ti-based Targets
Vitali Nesterenko, Sastry Indrakanti (Dept. of AMES, UC San Diego, CA 92093), N. Singh Brar (University of Dayton Research Institute, Dayton, Ohio 45469), YaBei Gu (Dept. of AMES, UC San Diego, CA 92093)
13:45 C4.02 Shock Hugoniot and Shear Strength of Ti-6-4
Nachhatter S. Brar, Alan Hopkins (University of Dayton Research Institute), Impact Physics Laboratory Team
14:00 C4.03 Shock Response of Ti-6Al-4V
Dattatraya P. Dandekar, Stephen V. Spletzer (Army Research Laboratory)
14:15 C4.04 Laser Shock Peening of Titanium 6-4 Alloy
Alan Hopkins, Mark Laber, Nachhatter S. Brar (University of Dayton Research Institute), Impact Physics Laboratory Team
14:30 C4.05 Dynamic Properties of a Shock Loaded Tungsten Composite
W. H. Holt, L. T. Wilson, W. Mock Jr., B. Simpson (NSWC/Dahlgren)
14:45 C4.06 Lateral sample surface motion in the plate-rod impact experiments
Eugene Zaretsky (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel), David Levi-Hevroni, Dror Ofer, Dov Shwartz (NNRC, Beer-Sheva, Israel)

Session C5. Porous Materials Models at Various Length Scales.

Monday afternoon, 13:30, Wasatch Room, Cliff Lodge Convention Center

13:30 C5.01 A consistent kinetics porosity model for high-strain rate phenomena
Rebecca Brannon (Sandia National Laboratories)
13:45 C5.02 Polyurethane Foam Impact Experiments and Simulations
M. E. Kipp, L. C. Chhabildas, W. D. Reinhart, M. K. Wong (Sandia National Laboratories)
14:00 C5.03 Compaction Waves in Granular HMX.
Ralph Menikoff, Edward Kober (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
14:15 C5.04 Numerical Investigation of Pore Collapse under Dynamic and Quasi-Static Compression
Wenyan Liu, Z. P. Tang (University of Science and Technology of China), Y. Horie (North Carolina State University)
14:30 C5.05 Theoretical Models for the Shock Response of Foams
John R. Maw (AWE, Aldermaston, Reading, UK.)