“…In recent years a great deal of attention has been devoted to apply the similarity analysis to impact problems in nonlinear elasticity (see Taulbee, Cozzarelli, and Dym [72], Singh and Frydrychowicz [69], Singh and Frydrychowicz [70], Dresner [20, pp. 77-87], Frydrychowicz and Singh [40], Donato [18], Fazio [28], and Fazio and Evans [38]). Moreover, the relevance of models describing the evolution of a shock at the initial time cannot be underestimated.…”