Shock Waves in Materials Science

1 Heterogeneous Distribution of Temperatures and Pressures in the Shock Recovery Fixtures and its Utilization to Materials Science Study.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Reasonable size of recovery fixture.- 3 Sock wave reflection in solids.- 4 Recovery assembly of a very thin specimen, sandwiched between high impedance materials.- 5 Recovery fixture having thick specimen chamber.- 6 Numerical simulation of shock compression in the recovery capsule.- 7 Shock compression of a solid by means of converging shock waves.- 8 Conclusions.- 2 Dynamic Synthesis of Superhard Materials.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Dynamic synthesis of super hard materials.- 3 Considerations of synthesis mechanism.- 4 Conclusions.- 3 Solid State Reactivity of Shock-Processed Solids.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Shock modification of shock-processed solids.- 3 Single-component system.- 4 Multiple-component systems.- 5 Summary and concluding remarks.- 4 Shock-Induced Chemical Reactions in Inorganic Powder Mixtures.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Materials synthesis.- 3 Computational modeling.- 4 Conclusions.- 5 Shock Effects on Structural and Superconducting Properties of High Tc Oxides.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Specific features of high Tc oxides as type II superconductor.- 3 Mechanical and chemical effects of shock waves on high Tc oxides.- 4 Shock effects on superconducting properties.- 5 Concluding remarks.- 6 Shock compression studies on ceramic materials.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Experimental facilities combined with the keyed-powder gun.- 3 Shock compression studies oa selected ceramics.- 4 Phenomenological discussion on the shock-yielding phenomena of brittle materials.- 5 Concluding remarks.- 7 The role of Thermal Energy in Shock Consolidation.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Energy deposition during shock processing.- 3 Experimental techniques.- 4 Consolidation experiments: Results and discussion.- 5 Conclusions.- 8 A New Processing for the Self- propagating High Temperature Synthesis (SHS) Combined with Shock Compression Technique.- 1