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Implications Of Heterogeneity In The Shock Wave Propagation Of Dynamically Shocked Materials, Jeffrey W. Lajeunesse
Implications Of Heterogeneity In The Shock Wave Propagation Of Dynamically Shocked Materials, Jeffrey W. Lajeunesse
Master's Theses (2009 -)
The field of shock physics as a whole has only recently begun to pay particular attention to modeling heterogeneous materials under shock loading. These materials are important because of their practicality in terms of creating stronger, more shock resistant materials. To understand why they absorb shock impact energy better than homogeneous materials means that the small-scale processes that occur during the shock loading of these heterogeneous materials needs to be understood. Recent computational experiments, called mesoscale simulations, have shown that explicitly incorporating small-scale heterogeneous features into hydrocode simulations allows the bulk shock response of the heterogeneous material to be observed …