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Shock Waves and Brittle Material Response

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ME-628: High Strain Rate Mechanics of Materials

This course offers fundamentals concepts of material behavior under dynamic loads such as impact and shock. lt will cover experimental methods and analytical modeling approaches to describe the dynamic deformation behavior of metals, ceramics and polymeric ...

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This lecture introduces shock waves and the shock response of brittle materials, covering shock wave profiles, phase transformation, and Hugoniot relationships. It explains the elastic and plastic responses of metals and ceramics to stress waves, the development of shock waves, and the hydrodynamic treatment of shock waves. The lecture also discusses the conservation laws of mass, momentum, and energy in shock wave interactions, as well as the behavior of materials under shock loading. Various experiments and visualizations are used to illustrate the concepts, including shock wave attenuation, interaction, and reflection, as well as shock-induced phase transformations in ceramics.

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Chemical engineering

Materials science: Deformation of materials

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