Note: Front Cover -- Shock Compression of Condensed Matter - 1991 -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Foreword -- Photograph: Recipient of the Shock Compression Science Award, 1991 -- CHAPTER I. PLENARY -- Shock Waves and Extreme States of Matter -- Progress in Understanding Shock Deformation in Condensed Materials at the Atomic/Molecular Level: Recent Experimental Developments -- Static Compression to Multimegabar Pressures -- CHAPTER II. EQUATION OF STATE -- Shock Compression of Condensed Matter up to Gigabar Pressure Range -- Quantum Mechanical Effects on the Shock Hugoniot -- The Calculated Behaviour of Periclase (MGO) at High Temperatures and Pressures -- Equation of State of Heated Glassy Carbon -- Shock-Vaporization Studies on Zinc and Porous Carbon -- Equation of State (EOS) and Bulk Modulus under Pressure of Noble Metals and Their Alloys -- Shock Compression of Iron -- Equation of State of Gold in the High-Temperature Low-Density Regime -- The Velocity of Sound Behind Strong Shocks in Si02 -- Equation of State of Composites under High Energy Densities -- Hugoniot Measurements on a Slurry of Finely Divided Tungsten and Plastic -- Equation of State and Crushing Dynamics of Low-Density Silica Aerogels -- Shock Compression of Low-Density Microcellular Materials -- Equation-of-State from Si02 Aerogel Hugoniot Data -- Shock Characterization of Epoxy-42 Volume Percent Glass Microballoons -- Two-Variable Feature of Gruneisen Function Observed in Experimental Porous Hugoniot Data -- Shock Wave Studies of Snow -- Energy Gap of Molecular Hydrogen from Electrical Conductivity Measurements -- CHAPTER III. MOLECULAR DYNAMICS AND MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS -- Molecular Potentials for Simulating Shock-Induced Chemistry -- Simulations of Chemically-Sustained Shock Fronts in a Model Energetic Material. , Nonlinear Dynamics of Chains Interacting with a Steady Shock Front -- Direct Monte Carlo Simulation of Chemical Equilibrium Composition of Molecular Fluid Mixtures under Shock Conditions -- Monte Carlo Simulation of 3-Body Effects in Dense Helium -- Monte Carlo Calculations of the Properties of Solid Nitromethane -- Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Shocks in Imperfect Crystal Lattices -- Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Ejection Induced by Reflection of Shockwave at Free Surface of Metals -- CHAPTER IV. PHASE TRANSITIONS -- Band Structure Calculations to Predict Phase Transformations at High Pressures -- Lindemann Melting Law for Anisentropic Crystals: Graphite → Liquid Carbon -- Experimental Check of E. I. Zababahin Hypothesis Concerning Limitation of Energy Cumulation in the Spherically Converging Shock-Wave Front in the Medium with Phase Transitions -- Macrokinetics of α-ɛPhase Transition for Some Steels under Different Conditions of Explosive Loading -- Shock Induced Polymorphic Phase Transition in a Low-Alloy Steel -- Incubation Time and Growth Pattern of Martensite under a Short Duration Stress Pulse -- Shock-Induced Martensitic Transformation of Highly Ordered Graphite -- Melting along the Hugoniots of KBr and CsBr: Optical Pyrometry-Rarefaction Overtake Experiments -- Phase Transformation of AIN by Shock Compression -- Mechanism of the Shock-Induced Phase Transition in CdS Single Crystals -- Response of Single Crystal Calcite Shocked to 40 kbar along the C-Axis -- Microstructures of Shocked Quartz -- CHAPTER V. MODELING AND SIMULATION: NONENERGETIC MATERIALS -- Theoretical Prediction of Novel Molecular Solids Formed at High Pressure -- Theory of Spectroscopy of Point Defects in Solids: Cr lmpurities -- Effective Like- and Unlike-Pair Interactions at High Pressure and High Temperature -- Stability of Shock Waves. , Overdriven Shocks in Solids and Liquids -- Hydrodynamic Theory of Shock Induced Anomalous Mass Transfer in Solids -- Irregular Shock Refractions at a Material Interface -- One Dimensional Flows with Straight Particle Velocity Contours -- Non-Steady Wave Profiles and the Fourth-Power Law -- Energy Localization in Rapidly Deforming Crystalline Solids -- Modeling Shock Waves with Dislocation Mechanics Based Constitutive Relations -- Attenuation of Two-Dimensional Axisymmetric Shock Waves in Porous AI2O3 -- Simulation of Uniaxial Stress-Strain Curves for Arbitrary Strain Rates and Confining Stress Histories -- Reverse Plasticity Effects in Free Surface Wave Profiles -- Effects of Anisotropy on Dynamic Tensile Behavior -- Partially Decoupled Explosion Cavities -- Comparative Yield Estimation via Shock Hydrodynamic Methods -- The Size of Dents in Circular Shells Resulting from Submerged Shock Waves -- Hydrocode Development on the NCUBE and the Connection Machine Hypercubes -- TOLTEC: A Multidimensional Solid Dynamics Wavecode -- Interactive Mesh Generation in Solid Dynamics Hydrocodes -- ALE Shock Calculations Using a Stabilized Serendipity Rezoning Scheme -- Calculation of Elastic-Plastic Wave Propagation on the Connection Machine -- CHAPTER VI. MODELING AND SIMULATION: ENERGETIC MATERIALS -- The Structure of Detonation Waves in Solid Explosives -- Lagrangian Analysis, Data Covariance, and the Impulse Time Integral -- Analytical Representation of the Adiabatic Equation for Detonation Products Based on Statistical Mechanics and Intermolecular Forces -- Universal Description of Energetics of Condensed Matter -- The Influence of a Slow Rate on Detonation Flow -- A Study of the Impact of Reaction Rates on Equation of State -- Munroe/Channel Effect and Weak Detonations -- Shock and Shear Effects in Explosives due to Impact. , Shock Initiation of Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate Crystals: Steric Effects due to Plastic Flow -- Sensing the Threshold for Initiation of High Explosives in Hydrodynamic Calculations -- Expansion Movement and Fracture of a Cylindrical Shell due to Internal Explosion -- Interface Instabilities Occurring during an Explosive Driven Implosion -- Computational Studies of Sympathetic Detonation between Two Axially Adjacent, Cased Charges of H6 -- CHAPTER VII. MECHANICAL PROPERTIES: MACROSCOPIC ASPECTS -- Dynamic Plasticity in Transition from Thermal Activation to Viscous Drag -- Elastic-Plastic Constitutive Relations at Large Strain -- A New Model of Rate Dependent Elastic-Plastic Flow -- The Plastic Wave Myth -- Extrapolation of the Shear Modulus to High Compressions and Negative Pressures -- Appropriate Material Softening and Failure Models for Numerical Calculations -- Experimental Study of Spalling Strength and the Hydro-Elastic Viscoplastic Constitutive Equations with Damage -- Numerical Analysis of "Thin Film" Gruneisen Test Measurements -- Criteria of Transition from Translational to Rotational Motion of Media under Shock Loading -- Deformation Behavior of Pre-Shocked Copper as a Function of Strain Rate and Temperature -- Shear Stress Prediction in Shock Loaded Copper -- Dynamic Behavior of Fully Dense Molybdenum -- The Rate Dependence of the Saturation Flow Stress of Cu and 1100 Al -- Bauschinger Effect during Shock Loading -- Dynamic Behavior of Tungsten Sintered Alloys at High Strain Rates up to 105 s-1 -- Elastic-Plastic Behavior of Shock-Loaded Fe-SiO2 Composite Materials -- The Response of Ceramic Materials to Shock Loading -- Computer Studies of the Dynamic Strength of Ceramics -- The Failure Waves and Spallations in Homogeneous Brittle Materials -- Shock-Wave Properties of High-Strength Ceramics. , Elastic Wave Dispersion in High-Strength Ceramics -- Shock Compression of Chemically Bonded Ceramics -- Applying Steinberg's Model to the Hugoniot Elastic Limit of Porous Boron Carbide Specimens -- Shear Strength of Titanium Diboride under Shock Loading Measured by Transverse Manganin Gauges -- Spallation Behavior of TiB2,SiC, and B4C under Planar Impact Tensile Stresses -- Ceramics Behavior at Stress Levels Characteristic of Ballistic Impact -- Load/Unload Hysteresis in Ceramics Measured by a Reverberation Technique -- Effect of Shock-Re-Shock on Spallation of Titanium Diboride -- Mechanical Response of a Composite Propellant to Dynamic Loading -- Dynamic Compressive Properties of an Explosive Simulant -- Constitutive Modeling of Concrete under Impact Loading -- Effect of Strain Rate and Size on Tensile Strength of Concrete -- Dynamic Response of Moist Soil to Shock Loading -- Viscosity of Water and Glycerin behind a Shock Wave Front -- CHAPTER VIII. MECHANICAL PROPERTIES: MICROSCOPIC ASPECTS -- Plane Strain Fracture in Plate Impact -- The Influence of Tungsten-Atom Transition on the Mechanical Properties of Tungsten Alloys -- An Experimental Approach to Evolution of Spallation -- Microstructural Evolution in High Strain, High Strain-Rate Deformation -- Strain Rate Dependency of Copper Recrystallization -- The Acquisition and Investigation of Submicrocrystal Structure Materials in Experiments on Loading of Metal Spheres by Spherically Converging Shock Waves -- Influence of Twinning on the Elasto-Plastic Behavior of Armco-lron -- Homogeneous Deformation of a Particulate Reinforced Metal-Matrix Composite -- Linear Relation between Shock Velocity and Pressure in Relation to the Gruneisen Parameter -- A Micromechanical Model for Granular Material and Application to Penetration of Ceramic Armor. , Pressure Induced Macro- and Micromechanical Phenomena in Planar Impacted TiB2.