Properties of Elastic and Plastic Waves Determined by Pin Contactors and Crystals
- 1 April 1955
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 26 (4) , 463-469
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1722019
Abstract
Experimental techniques are described by which one can observe the separation of a shock wave in a metal into an elastic wave and a slower plastic wave. The plastic‐wave velocity was about 15 percent less in steel and 10 percent less in tungsten than the elastic‐wave velocity, at pressures imparted by Composition B explosive. Elastic‐wave velocities were the same, within experimental error, as the measured sound velocities. The pressure in the elastic wave in SAE 1020 steel, deduced from the material and wave velocities, is independent of the plastic‐wave pressure within experimental accuracy, and is about 12 kilobars. SAE 1040 steel, however, does not exhibit a single characteristic elastic‐wave pressure. The pressure initially is about 6 kilobars, and increases to about 12 kilobars before the arrival of the plastic wave.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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