Instability in dynamic fracture

J Fineberg, M Marder - Physics Reports, 1999 - Elsevier
The fracture of brittle amorphous materials is an especially challenging problem, because
the way a large object shatters is intimately tied to details of cohesion at microscopic scales …

High-speed photography and digital optical measurement techniques for geomaterials: fundamentals and applications

HZ Xing, QB Zhang, CH Braithwaite, B Pan… - Rock Mechanics and …, 2017 - Springer
Geomaterials (ie rock, sand, soil and concrete) are increasingly being encountered and
used in extreme environments, in terms of the pressure magnitude and the loading rate …

Review of experimental techniques for high rate deformation and shock studies

JE Field, SM Walley, WG Proud, HT Goldrein… - International journal of …, 2004 - Elsevier
A variety of techniques used to obtain the mechanical properties of materials at high rates of
strain (⩾ 10s− 1) are summarised. These include dropweight machines, split Hopkinson …

Experimental evidence of hyperbolic heat conduction in processed meat

K Mitra, S Kumar, A Vedevarz, MK Moallemi - 1995 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The objective of this paper is to present experimental evidence of the wave nature of heat
propagation in processed meat and to demonstrate that the hyperbolic heat conduction …

Quasipure Bose-Einstein condensate immersed in a Fermi sea

F Schreck, L Khaykovich, KL Corwin, G Ferrari… - Physical Review Letters, 2001 - APS
We report the observation of coexisting Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) and Fermi gas in a
magnetic trap. With a very small fraction of thermal atoms, the 7 Li condensate is quasipure …

[HTML][HTML] A thermodynamic internal variable model for the partition of plastic work into heat and stored energy in metals

P Rosakis, AJ Rosakis, G Ravichandran… - Journal of the Mechanics …, 2000 - Elsevier
The energy balance equation for elastoplastic solids includes heat source terms that govern
the conversion of some of the plastic work into heat. The remainder contributes to the stored …

On the strain and strain rate dependence of the fraction of plastic work converted to heat: an experimental study using high speed infrared detectors and the Kolsky bar

JJ Mason, AJ Rosakis, G Ravichandran - Mechanics of Materials, 1994 - Elsevier
The conversion of plastic work to heat at high strain rates gives rise to a significant
temperature increase which contributes to thermal softening in the constitutive response of …

Partition of plastic work into heat and stored energy in metals

J Hodowany, G Ravichandran, AJ Rosakis… - Experimental …, 2000 - Springer
This study investigates heat generation in metals during plastic deformation. Experiments
were designed to measure the partition of plastic work into heat and stored energy during …

Dynamically propagating shear bands in impact-loaded prenotched plates—I. Experimental investigations of temperature signatures and propagation speed

M Zhou, AJ Rosakis, G Ravichandran - … of the Mechanics and Physics of …, 1996 - Elsevier
The initiation and propagation of shear bands are investigated by subjecting prenotched
plates to asymmetric impact loading (dynamic mode-II). The materials studied are C-300 (a …

The dynamic compressive behavior of beryllium bearing bulk metallic glasses

HA Bruck, AJ Rosakis, WL Johnson - Journal of Materials Research, 1996 - cambridge.org
In 1993, a new beryllium bearing bulk metallic glass with the nominal composition Zr41.
25Ti13. 75Cu12. 5Ni10Be22. 5 was discovered at Caltech. This metallic glass can be cast …