Multiscale Richtmyer-Meshkov instability experiments to isolate the strain rate dependence of strength

MB Prime, SJ Fensin, DR Jones, JW Dyer, DT Martinez - Physical Review E, 2024 - APS
Theoretical analysis of Richtmyer-Meshkov instability (RMI) experiments for solid strength
shows that the strain rate for a given shock should be inversely proportional to the length …

[HTML][HTML] Shock behavior of materials

F Coppari, T De Rességuier, S Razorenov… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The physics governing the response of materials to shock loading has numerous
applications in various fields, ranging from Earth and planetary science to engineering and …

[HTML][HTML] Robust implementation of Physical Regime Sensitivity and demonstration on Richtmyer–Meshkov Instability experiments

JW Dyer, J Waters, MB Prime - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of …, 2024 - Elsevier
We present a robust analytic implementation of Physical Regime Sensitivity (PRS), which
quantifies sensitivity of an experiment or application to regimes of a material model's …

Effect of compression path on Rayleigh-Taylor instability growth of solid copper

YJ Kim, TE Lockard, MP Hill, JM McNaney… - AIP Conference …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We report laser direct-driven Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability experiments on solid copper
(Cu). Rippled Cu samples are accelerated along low and high adiabatic paths which are …