Radial release interactions

To illustrate the effect of radial release interactions on the structure/ property relationships in shock-loaded materials, experiments were conducted on copper shock loaded using several shock-recovery designs that yielded differences in es but all having been subjected to a 10 GPa, 1 fis pulse duration, shock process [13]. Compression specimens were sectioned from these soft recovery samples to measure the reload yield behavior, and examined in the transmission electron microscope (TEM) to study the substructure evolution. The substructure and yield strength of the bulk shock-loaded copper samples were found to depend on the amount of e, in the shock-recovered sample at a constant peak pressure and pulse duration. In Fig. 6.8 the quasi-static reload yield strength of the 10 GPa shock-loaded copper is observed to increase with increasing residual sample strain. 

There may be radial temperature gradients in the reactor that arise from the interaction between the energy released by reaction, heat transfer through the walls of the tube, and convective transport of energy. This factor is the greatest potential source of disparities between the predictions of the model and what is observed for real systems. The deviations are most significant in nonisothermal packed bed reactors. 

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