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Shock waves in materials with nonlinear instantaneous response

Green, Robert J.; Lubliner, Jacob

UCB/SESM-1968/13, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1968-09-01, 70 pages (500/C23/68/13)

Shock propagation in solids which exhibit a nonlinear stress strain curve when subjected to instantaneous loadings is studied.

Available online: http://nisee.berkeley.edu/documents/SEMM/SEMM-68-13.pdf (4 MB)