Program overview

TUESDAY MORNING, 29 JUNE 1999

10:30 F1.01 Detonation Properties of Bromonitromethane

Lloyd L. Davis, Stephen A. Sheffield, Ray Engelke (Los Alamos National Lab)

10:45 F1.02 Detonation Properties of Nitromethane, Deuterated Nitromethane and Bromonitromethane

Stephen A. Sheffield, Lloyd L. Davis, Ray Engelke (Los Alamos National Lab)

11:00 F1.03 High Speed Observation of Fragment Impact Initiation of Nitromethane Charges

M.D. Cook, R.I. Briggs, P.J. Haskins, C. Stennett (DERA Fort Halstead, Sevenoaks, Kent TN14 7BP. England.)

11:15 F1.04 Effect of Diethylenetriamine and Triethylamine on Nitromethane Detonation

Julian J. Lee (Caltech), Junping Jiang, Choong Kooi Hoe, John H.S. Lee (Mcgill University)

11:30 F1.05 Numerical Simulations of Shock Initiation Processes in Liquid Nitromethane

V.Yu. Klimenko (University of St.Andrews, UK), M.D. Cook, P.J. Hashins (Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, UK), A.M. Milne, D.C. Swift (Fluid Gravity Engineering Ltd., UK)

11:45 F1.06 Detonation Front in Homogeneous and Geterogeneous High Explosives.

A.V. Fedorov, E.V. Zotov, G.V. Krasovsky, A.V. Menshikh, N.B. Yagodin (RFNC-VNIIEF)

10:30 F2.01 Vibrational Stiffness of an Atomic Lattice

Steven B. Segletes (U.S. Army Research Laboratory)

10:45 F2.02 An Ab-initio Method for Estimating Equation of State Parameters.

Alex White, Frank J. Zerilli (Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head, MD USA)

11:00 F2.03 Use of Temperature Measurements for Equation of State Development for Shocked Ammonium Perchlorate.

J. M. Winey, Z. A. Dreger, Y. A. Gruzdkov, B. J. Jensen, Y. M. Gupta (Institute for Shock Physics, Washington State University.)

11:15 F2.04 Calibration and Validation of High Explosives Equations of State with an Experimental Cylinder Test Database

Maria Rightley (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

11:30 F2.05 A Theoretical Equation of State for Detonation Products with Chemical Equilibrium Composition of the Surface of Small Carbon Clusters

M. S. Shaw (Los Alamos National Lab)

11:45 F2.06 Equation of State (EOS) for Liquid Carbons (LC) and its Affection on the Calculation of Detonation Parameters

Gang Zhou, Chao Wen, Xiaoxin Liu, Yan Li (Division 1 Northwest Institution of Nuclear Technology, Box69, XiĄŻan, 710024, P.R.China)

10:30 F3.01 Material failure and pattern growth in shock-driven aluminum cylinders at the Pegasus facility

John Stokes, David Oro, R. Douglas Fulton, Dane Morgan, Andrew Obst, Henn Oona, Wallace Anderson (LANL), Elaine Chandler, Pat Egan (LLNL)

10:45 F3.02 Dynamic mechanical properties of aluminum alloys GIGAS

Alexander Shor, Eugene Zaretsky (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel), Katsumasa Otera (YKK Corporation, Kurobe, Japan), Akihiro Sasoh, Kazuyoshi Takayama (Shock Wave Research Center, IFS, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan)

11:00 F3.03 Pressure-Shear Response of Thin Tantalum Foils

Kevin E. Duprey (Ensign Bickford), Rodney J. Clifton (Brown University)

11:15 F3.04 Shock Wave Profiles in Ta: Comparing Calculation and Experiment

Peter S. Fiske (Physics and Space Technology Directorate/Lawrence Livermore National Lab), David H. Lassila, Roger Minich (B-division/Lawrence Livermore National Lab), Neil Holmes (Physics and Space Technology Directorate/Lawrence Livermore National Lab)

11:30 F3.05 Dynamic Strength of Tungsten-Nickel-Cobalt Alloys

Sikhanda Satapathy, Stephan Bless, Rachel Gee (Institute for Advanced Technology, University of Texas at Austin), Lothar Meyer (University of Chemnitz, Germany), Singh Brar (University of Dayton Research Institute)

11:45 F3.06 Shock Compression and Isentropic Expansion of Porous Samples of Nickel, Tin and Tungsten.

M.V. Zhernokletov, L.F. Gudarenko, O.N. Gushchina, A.B. Medvedev, G.V. Simakov (RFNC-VNIIEF)

10:30 F4.01 A Novel Method for Determining Dynamic Fracture Toughness

C.E. Anderson Jr., C.H. Popelar, A. Nagy, J.D. Walker (Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas 78228)

10:45 F4.02 Influence of Crystallographic Anisotropy on the Hopkinson Fracture "Spallation" of Zirconium

G.T. Gray III (Los Alamos National Laboratory), N.K. Bourne (RMCS, Shrivenham, England), J.C.F. Millett (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge), P.J. Maudlin (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

11:00 F4.03 Metallurgical Analysis and Computer Simulation of Steel Bearing Under Shock Loading

James N. Wilson, Javad Hashemi, Darryl James (Texas Tech University), Kurtis Kuhrts, Bret Combs (Pantex), Michael Hale, Grant Willson, Tim Dallas (University of Texas at Austin)

11:15 F4.04 Pequliarities of metal balls deformation by quasi-spherical shock waves

B.L. Glushak, S.A. Novikov, L.M. Sinitsyna, N.A. Yukina (Russian Federal Nuclear Center - VNIIEF, Sarov, Russia, 607190)

11:30 F4.05 Deformation and Fracture Processes of Solids at the Mesolevel under Explosive and Shock Wave Loading

P.V. Makarov, I. Yu Smolin, Yu.P. Stefanov (Institute of Strength Physics and Materials Science, RAS)

11:45 F4.06 Effect of temperature on spall failure of some metals and alloys

V.K. Golubev, Yu.S. Sobolev (RFNC-VNIIEF)