The decay limit of the Hugoniot elastic limit

The linear work hardening stage and de Broglie equation for autowaves of localized plasticity

“…Recently Billingsley (1998Billingsley ( , 2001 applied the de Broglie equation to calculate mass by addressing autowaves; the calculated value was found to correlate with the atomic weight of the metal from which the specimen was made. In his work Billingsley (2001) identified the velocity of wave propagation, V aw , in the de Broglie equation with the rate of tensile loading, V mach , which is unjustifiable, since the experimental evidence reported by Zuev andDanilov (1997, 1999) suggests that the above values are related as 10 6 V aw /V mach 6 50.…”

Experimental determination of the fracture time of polymethylmethacrylate and polystyrene behind the shock wave excited by a high-current pulsed electron beam

“…There fore, the mechanics of their fracture under pulsed loading is of particular interest. Although the adiabats of many polymers are known [5,6], there is no model that can adequately describe the behavior of these materials under fast pulsed loading with allowance for irreversible strains, plasticity, and brittle fracture. The fracture of such materials during pulsed loading is nonequilibrium, which is related to their complex internal structure and nonlinear strength properties.…”