Session B2: Energetic Materials I

Chair: Von Whitley, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head
Hyatt Regency - Constellation C


Monday, August 1, 2005
9:00AM - 9:15AM

B2.00001: Links between crystal morphology and shock sensitivity in granular RDX
Helen Czerski , Martin Greenaway , William Proud

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Monday, August 1, 2005
9:15AM - 9:30AM

B2.00002: First-principles studies of PETN molecular crystal vibrational frequencies under high pressure
Warren Perger , Jijun Zhao , J.M. Winey , Y.M. Gupta

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Monday, August 1, 2005
9:30AM - 9:45AM

B2.00003: First-principles studies of RDX crystals under compression
Jijun Zhao , J.M. Winey , Y.M. Gupta , Warren Perger

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Monday, August 1, 2005
9:45AM - 10:00AM

B2.00004: Vibrational Spectroscopic Studies of Reduced-Sensitivity RDX under Static Compression
Chak Wong , Jared Gump

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Monday, August 1, 2005
10:00AM - 10:15AM

B2.00005: Time-Resolved, Optical Spectroscopy Measurements of RDX Single Crystals Shocked along Different Orientations
James Patterson , Naoki Hemmi , Yogendra Gupta

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Monday, August 1, 2005
10:15AM - 10:30AM

B2.00006: Comparison of Reaction Kinetics of iRDX vs. RDX at High Pressure
Jared Gump , Suhithi Peiris

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Session B3: Focus Session: Ultra-High Pressure Shocks (P>>1 Mbar)

Chair: Gilbert Collins, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Hyatt Regency - Constellation D


Monday, August 1, 2005
9:00AM - 9:30AM

B3.00001: Creating Extreme Material Properties with High-Energy Laser Systems
Invited Speaker: David Meyerhofer

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Monday, August 1, 2005
9:30AM - 10:00AM

B3.00002: Magnetically-Driven Isentropic Compression Status and Future Advances
Invited Speaker: Christopher Deeney

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Monday, August 1, 2005
10:00AM - 10:15AM

B3.00003: Ultra-High Pressure Shock Compression at the Sandia Z Accelerator.
Marcus Knudson , R.W. Lemke , M.P. Desjarlais , C. Deeney

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Monday, August 1, 2005
10:15AM - 10:30AM

B3.00004: Accuracy and Sensitivity of Hugoniot Measurements at Ultrahigh Pressures
W.J. Nellis

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Session B4: Inelastic Deformation I - Spall I

Chair: Kaliat Ramesh, John Hopkins University
Hyatt Regency - Constellation E


Monday, August 1, 2005
9:00AM - 9:15AM

B4.00001: Abnormal Spall Behavior Observed in Pure Iron and FeMnNi Alloy Undergoing \textbf{$\alpha -\varepsilon$} Phase Transition
Zhiping Tang , Xinhua Zhang , Weiwei Xu , Xiaojun Tang , Haibo Hu

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Monday, August 1, 2005
9:15AM - 9:30AM

B4.00002: Iron damage and spalling behavior below and above shock induced alpha $\alpha \Leftrightarrow \varepsilon $ phase transition
Christophe Voltz , Fran\c{c}ois Buy , Gilles Roy

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Monday, August 1, 2005
9:30AM - 9:45AM

B4.00003: Large tensions and strength of iron in different structure states
Sergey Razorenov , Gennady Kanel , Andrey Savinykh , Vladimir Fortov

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Monday, August 1, 2005
9:45AM - 10:00AM

B4.00004: Peculiarities of Damage Nucleation Stage at Intensive Loading of Copper
Olga Ignatova

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Monday, August 1, 2005
10:00AM - 10:15AM

B4.00005: Damage Characterization in Copper Deformed Under Hydrostatic Stress - Experimental Analysis
Philip Flater , Robert De Angelis , Joel House

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Monday, August 1, 2005
10:15AM - 10:30AM

B4.00006: Scaling Relationships and Dynamic Failure
Roger Minich , Mukul Kumar

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Session B5: First-Principles & Molecular Dynamics Calculations I

Chair: Stephane Mazevet, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Hyatt Regency - Constellation F


Monday, August 1, 2005
9:00AM - 9:15AM

B5.00001: Designing Meaningful Density Functional Theory Calculations in Materials Science
A.E. Mattsson , P.A. Schultz , M.P. Desjarlais , T.R. Mattsson , K. Leung

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Monday, August 1, 2005
9:15AM - 9:30AM

B5.00002: Simulations of water in giant planets: discovery of symmetric H-bonding in the superionic phase
Nir Goldman , Laurence Fried

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Monday, August 1, 2005
9:30AM - 9:45AM

B5.00003: Electrical conductivity of shocked water from Density Functional Theory
Thomas R. Mattsson , Michael P. Desjarlais

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Monday, August 1, 2005
9:45AM - 10:00AM

B5.00004: Path Integral Monte Carlo Calculations of Thermodynamic Properties of Dense Hydrogen-Helium Plasma
Vladimir Filinov , Pavel Levashov , Michael Bonitz , Vladimir Fortov

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Monday, August 1, 2005
10:00AM - 10:15AM

B5.00005: Ab-initio Based Simulations High-Pressure Phases of Nitrogen
Federico Zahariev , Anguang Hu , James Hooper , Tom Woo , Fan Zhang

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Monday, August 1, 2005
10:15AM - 10:30AM

B5.00006: Unified transition path and universal transition state for ZB to RS or WZ to RS high pressure phase transition
Maosheng Miao , Walter R.L. Lambrecht

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Session B6: Equation of State I

Chair: Eric Chisolm, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Hyatt Regency - Chesapeake A/B


Monday, August 1, 2005
9:00AM - 9:15AM

B6.00001: Structural Phase Transitions {\&} Equation of State of Aluminum from First Principles
Xia Lu , Sathya Hanagud

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Monday, August 1, 2005
9:15AM - 9:30AM

B6.00002: Thermodynamically based equation of state for shock wave studies. Application to the design of experiments on tin.
Francois Buy , Christophe Voltz , Fabrice Llorca

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Monday, August 1, 2005
9:30AM - 9:45AM

B6.00003: Testing a Liquid EOS Model Against Cu Data
S.D. Crockett , C.W. Greeff , J.D. Johnson

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Monday, August 1, 2005
9:45AM - 10:00AM

B6.00004: Wide-Range Multiphase Equations of State for Matter in Tabular Form and Their Applications
Pavel Levashov , Konstantin Khishchenko

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Monday, August 1, 2005
10:00AM - 10:15AM

B6.00005: Building of Equations of State with Numerous Phase Transitions --- Application to Bismuth
Olivier Heuze

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