Hugoniot measurements near 50 MBAR

Conference · Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1979

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-024774-8.50243-7· OSTI ID:5981673

Ragan, III, C E

A planar shock generated in the vicinity of an underground nuclear explosion was used to obtain Hugoniot data at 6.7 TPa for uranium relative to a molybdenum standard in an impedance matching experiment. Twenty-seven electrical contact pins were used to measure shock velocities of 27.0 and 22.8 km/s (+- 1%) in the molybdenum and uranium, respectively. The measurement differs from theory by more than 2.5 times the experimental uncertainty and represents the highest pressure at which Hugoniot data have been obtained.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos Scientific Lab., NM (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 5981673
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-79-1992; CONF-790709-5
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
ACTINIDES
ELEMENTS
EXPLOSIONS
IMPACT SHOCK
MEASURING METHODS
METALS
MOLYBDENUM
NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS
REFRACTORY METALS
SHOCK WAVES
TRANSITION ELEMENTS
URANIUM
VELOCITY
VERY HIGH PRESSURE
WAVE PROPAGATION