Solids Under High-Pressure Shock Compression

I. Shock-Compression Science.- 1. Introduction.- 1.1. Shock Compression of Solids.- 1.2. Fluidlike Deformation of Shock-Compressed Solids.- 1.3. Shock-Compression Paradigms: Benign and Catastrophic.- 1.4. Origins of Shock-Compression Science.- 1.5. Pressure Scale of Events.- 1.6. Review Articles.- 1.7. The Layout of this Work.- 1.8. A Note on Sign Conventions.- II. Mechanical Response of Shock-Compressed Solids.- 2. Basic Concepts and Models.- 2.1. Regimes of Mechanical Response.- 2.2. Nonlinear Elastic Compression.- 2.3. Stress Tensors.- 2.4. The Hugoniot Elastic Limit.- 2.5. Elastic-Plastic Deformation.- 2.6. Hydrodynamic Flow.- 2.7. Phase Transformations.- 2.8. Release Waves.- 2.9. Other Mechanical Aspects.- 2.10. First- and Second-Order Behaviors.- 3. Experimental Methods.- 3.1. Shock-Loading Methods.- 3.2. Measurement of Wave Profiles.- 3.3. Physical Categories of Detectors.- 3.4. Shock-Compression Gauges Cannot Be “Calibrated”.- 3.5. Advances in Measurement Technology.- III. Physical Properties of Shock-Compressed Solids.- 4. Physical Properties Under Elastic Shock Compression.- 4.1. Nonlinear Piezoelectric Properties.- 4.2. Normal Dielectrics.- 4.3. Shock-Induced Conduction in Elastic Dielectrics.- 4.4. Semiconductors Under Large Elastic Strain.- 4.5. Elastic Physical Properties.- 5. Physical Properties Under Elastic-Plastic Compression.- 5.1. Piezoelectric Responses of Crystals in the Elastic-Plastic Range.- 5.2. Piezoelectric Polymers.- 5.3. Ferroelectric Solids.- 5.4. Ferromagnetic Solids.- 5.5. Resistance of Metals.- 5.6. Shock-Induced Electrical Polarization.- 5.7. Electrochemistry.- 5.8. Elastic-Plastic Physical Properties.- IV. Chemical Processes in Shock-Compressed Solids.- 6. Shock-Compression Processes in Solid State Chemistry.- 6.1. Background.- 6.2. Conceptual Models.- 6.3. Mathematical Models.- 6.4. Shock Compression of Porous Powder Compacts.- 6.5. Sample Preservation Technique.- 7. Shock Modification and Shock Activation: Enhanced Solid State Reactivity.- 7.1. Shock Modification.- 7.2. Shock Activation: Enhanced Solid State Reactivity.- 8. Solid State Chemical Synthesis.- 8.1. Zinc Ferrite Synthesis.- 8.2. Intermetallic Compound Synthesis.- 8.3. Metal-Oxide Systems.- 8.4. Shock-Induced Solid State Chemical Synthesis.- V. Shock Compression of Solids as a Mechanical, Physical, Chemical Process.- 9. The Shock-Compression Processes.- 9.1. Solid State Physics and Solid State Chemistry.- 9.2. Future Directions in Shock-Compression Science.- References.- Author Index.