Particle size distribution and strain rate attenuation in hypervelocity impact and shock recovery experiments

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 56, Issue , 2013, Pages 20-33

  Buhl, Elmar ^a,d   Kowitz, Astrid ^b   Elbeshausen, Dirk ^b   Sommer, Frank ^d   Dresen, Georg ^a   Poelchau, Michael H ^d   Reimold, Wolf U ^b,c   Schmitt, Ralf T ^b   Kenkmann, Thomas ^d  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Deformation microstructures; Dynamic fragmentation of sandstone; Hydrocode modeling; Hypervelocity impact experiment; Particle size distribution; Shock recovery experiment

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION MICROSTRUCTURE; DYNAMIC DEFORMATION; DYNAMIC FRAGMENTATION; HIGH STRAIN RATES; HYDRO CODES; HYPERVELOCITY IMPACTS; IMPACT EXPERIMENT; MICROSTRUCTURAL FEATURES;

DEFORMATION; FLOORS; FRACTAL DIMENSION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; MICROSTRUCTURAL EVOLUTION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; RECOVERY; SANDSTONE; STRAIN RATE;

EXPERIMENTS;

DEFORMATION; FAULT ZONE; MICROSTRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STRAIN RATE;

EID: 84884331726     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2013.08.007     Document Type: Article

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