Temperature rises associated with shear localization

The most likely initiation mechanism was one associated with plastic deformation however, if all the impact energy was absorbed by uniform plastic flow, the temperature rise would only be by a few degrees. Winter and Field [62] showed that silver azide is likely to be very susceptible to localized plastic flow, such as occurs in adiabatic shear failure (see, for example, references [73,74]), and this process was shown to be a feasible initiation mechanism for this and various other situations. 

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