Session U2: First Principles and Molecular Dynamics Calculations V

Chair: D. Scott Stewart, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fairmont Orchid Hotel - Amphitheater


Friday, June 29, 2007
8:00AM - 8:15AM

U2.00001: Energetic materials under thermal shock: Molecular dynamics simulation with reactive force field
Yi Liu , Sergey Zybin , Adri van Duin , William Goddard

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Friday, June 29, 2007
8:15AM - 8:30AM

U2.00002: Energetic materials under mechanical shock and shear: Molecular dynamics simulation with reactive force field
Sergey Zybin , Peng Xu , Adri van Duin , William Goddard

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Friday, June 29, 2007
8:30AM - 8:45AM

U2.00003: First-principles reactive molecular dynamics of initiation chemistry in energetic materials
Aaron Landerville , Ivan Oleynik , Mortko Kozhushner , Carter White

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Friday, June 29, 2007
8:45AM - 9:00AM

U2.00004: Theoretical studies of shock-induced plastic deformation and phase transformations in RDX
Marc Cawkwell , Thomas Sewell

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Friday, June 29, 2007
9:00AM - 9:15AM

U2.00005: A semi-metallic layer in detonating nitromethane
Evan Reed , Riad Manaa , Laurence Fried , Kurt Glaesemann , John Joannopoulos

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Friday, June 29, 2007
9:15AM - 9:30AM

U2.00006: Atomistic Simulations of Detonation Instabilities in Condensed Phase Systems
Edward Kober , Andrew Heim , Timothy Germann , Niels Jensen

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Session U3: Phase Transitions IV

Chair: Jean-Paul Davis, Sandia National Laboratories
Fairmont Orchid Hotel - Plaza I


Friday, June 29, 2007
8:00AM - 8:15AM

U3.00001: Response of silicon to shock wave compression along [100] and [111] orientations
Stefan J. Turneaure , Y.M. Gupta

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Friday, June 29, 2007
8:15AM - 8:30AM

U3.00002: Dynamic response of pure titanium up to 1300 K.
Eugene Zaretsky

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Friday, June 29, 2007
8:30AM - 8:45AM

U3.00003: Structural and Chemical Changes in Pyrene Crystals under Static High Pressures
Baozhou Sun , Zbigniew Dreger , Yogendra Gupta

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Friday, June 29, 2007
8:45AM - 9:00AM

U3.00004: Initial Temperature Effects on the Dielectric Properties of PZT 95/5 During Shock Compression
Robert Setchell , Stephen Montgomery , David Cox , Mark Anderson

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Friday, June 29, 2007
9:00AM - 9:15AM

U3.00005: Study of near critical point states of tantalum and lithium by pulse heating under launching.
Vladimir Ternovoit , Dmitry Nikolaev , Sergey Kvitov , Alexey Pyalling , Vladimir Fortov

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Friday, June 29, 2007
9:15AM - 9:30AM

U3.00006: Simulation of phase transitions and material decomposition in ultrashort laser--metal interaction
Mikhail Povarnitsyn , Pavel Levashov , Konstantin Khishchenko

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Friday, June 29, 2007
9:30AM - 9:45AM

U3.00007: Study of Phase Transitions in Cerium by Pressure Gauge PVDF
Mikhail Zhernokletov , Vladimir Simakov , Valery Borissenok , Viacheslav Bragunets , Vasily Volgin , Frank Cherne , Marvin Zocher

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Friday, June 29, 2007
9:45AM - 10:00AM

U3.00008: Measurement of sound velocities and shear strength of cerium under shock compression
Alexei Kovalev , Mikhail Zhernokletov , Vladimir Komissarov , Mikhail Novikov

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Session U4: Inelastic Deformation V

Chair: Peter Taylor, AWE, UK
Fairmont Orchid Hotel - Plaza II


Friday, June 29, 2007
8:00AM - 8:15AM

U4.00001: Transformation of voids observed on a surface to a volumetric size distribution
Lynn Seaman

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Friday, June 29, 2007
8:15AM - 8:30AM

U4.00002: Experimental Series on Behavior of Post-Damage Recollected Material
Ann Kaul , George Rodriquez

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Friday, June 29, 2007
8:30AM - 8:45AM

U4.00003: Aluminum Shield under Hypervelocity Impact of Mylar Flyer up to 10 km/s.
Jianheng Zhao , Fuli Tan , C. Sun , C. Liu , G. Ravichandran

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Friday, June 29, 2007
8:45AM - 9:00AM

U4.00004: Numerical Simulations of Fragmentation Onset Velocity of Projectile Impact on Thin Bumper
Wei Zhang , Caixia Jiang , Wenlai Ma , Baojun Pang

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Friday, June 29, 2007
9:00AM - 9:15AM

U4.00005: Studies on the Fracture of HR-2 Steel Cylinder under Imploding
Haibo Hu , Tiegang Tang , Qingzhong Li , Xueling Sun

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Friday, June 29, 2007
9:15AM - 9:30AM

U4.00006: Longitudinal Fracture Propagation of Explosive Loaded Metal Shells
Haibo Hu , Tiegang Tang , Bayi Hu

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Session U6: Shock Initiation II

Chair: Steven Chidester, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Fairmont Orchid Hotel - Promenade I/II


Friday, June 29, 2007
8:00AM - 8:30AM

U6.00001: The Puzzle of Explosive Response to Shock: Complexity to Simplicity by Changing the Observational Scale.
Invited Speaker: Hugh James

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Friday, June 29, 2007
8:30AM - 8:45AM

U6.00002: Effect of Transverse Electric Field on Sensitivity of an 88{\%} by Weight HMX Based Energetic Material
Richard Lee , Jerry Forbes , Edward Palermo , William Wilson

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Friday, June 29, 2007
8:45AM - 9:00AM

U6.00003: Shock Initiation Thresholds for Insensitive High Explosives
Hugh James

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Friday, June 29, 2007
9:00AM - 9:15AM

U6.00004: A Study of SDT in an Ammonium Nitrate (NH$_{4}$ NO$_{3})$ Based Granular Explosive
Malcolm Burns , Peter Taylor

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Friday, June 29, 2007
9:15AM - 9:30AM

U6.00005: Shock Reactivity Study on Standard and Reduced Sensitivity RDX of Different Particle Size Distributions
Nicholas McGregor , Allen Lindfors

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Friday, June 29, 2007
9:30AM - 9:45AM

U6.00006: Initiation of Explosives From the Bow Shock of a Supersonic Penetrator
Eric N. Ferm

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Friday, June 29, 2007
9:45AM - 10:00AM

U6.00007: Coherency for the Critical Condition of DDT and SDT in Energetic Materials
Huan Shi , Tan Xiangqian

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