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Measurement of the shear strength of pure tungsten during one-dimensional shock loading Lateral stress and shear strength measurements in polycrystalline potassium chloride, above and below the B1/B2 phase transition during shock loading Lateral stress measurements in a tungsten alloy, in combination with known Hugoniot data, have been used to find the shear strength of this material, and its variation with longitudinal shock stress, up to 14 GPa. Results show that the shear strength increases significantly with increasing stress. Prior to this work, there has been disagreement in the literature on the effect of shock stress on the shear strength of tungsten and its alloys. The present work agrees with the data obtained by Zhou and Clifton ͓J. Appl. Mech. 64, 487 ͑1997͔͒ who used pressure shear. However, the range of stresses studied has been greatly extended.

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X-ray diffraction evidence has shown that a crystalline structure can be produced in rubber by stretching or by freezing. In the former case, a fiber diagram is generally secured, in the latter, Debye-Scherrer rings. When raw rubber was stretched to moderate elongations and frozen an intense fiber diagram was found, showing that the crystallization proceeded from nuclei set up by the stretching. A series of diffraction patterns illustrating the effect are reproduced. The geometrical conditions of stretching under which ``higher orientation'' occurs in stretched rubber were studied by photometric measurements of the relative densities of the first two equatorial spots. Graphs are included demonstrating the effect of variations in gauge, width, length and elongation of the specimens. Higher orientation occurs when the percent contraction in gauge exceeds the percent contraction in width. The different physical structures of vulcanized pure gum stocks became apparent in the ``higher orientation'' characteristics, although the same diffraction pattern was secured. A correlation of the results with current views on the micellar or secondary structure of rubber and the crystallization of supercooled liquids is attempted.

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