Pressure Scale of Events

The difficulties in dealing with these fundamental solid behaviors were aptly characterized as the metallurgical mud by Walsh and Taylor [84T01]. It has proven to be a difficult task to extricate shock-compression science from the metallurgical mud. Mixing of chemical ooze into the metallurgical mud has now further clouded our scientific knowledge of the processes. 

Use of terms such as shock-compression science, or shock-compression processes casts such a broad net that little technical communication is accomplished. Within the overall framework of interest in materials under 

PMMA becomes opaque AI2O3 yields a— iron porous Al melts 3NI+AI reaction 

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In this chapter the scope of the subject the fluidlike deformation of shock-compressed solids modeling the shock as benign or catastrophic the origins of shock-compression science the pressure scale of events the plan of the present work. 

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