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This book offers a comprehensive, up-to-date, and detailed exploration of the most crucial aspects of adiabatic shear.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction (Dodd and Bai)

2. Experimental Methods (Meyer and Pursche)

3. Microstructural Aspects of Shear Localization Under High-Strain Rates for Materials (Xu and Meyers)

4. Analysis of Adiabatic Shear Bands by Numerical Simulation (Batra)

5. Current Status of the Theory of Adiabatic Shear Bands (Wright)

6. Adiabatic Shear Bands in Ammunition and Targets (Couque)

7. Explosives (Walley)

8. Shear Bands in Bulk Metallic Glasses (Bai)

9. Dynamic Failure of Amorphous Polymers (Swallowe)

10. Geological Aspects of Shear (Sulem)

11. Bibliography (Walley)

About the Author

Bradley Dodd is an Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Shock Physics, Imperial College. His research interests are metal forming, dynamic loading of materials and adiabatic shear, explosives and fracture of metals. He has published 3 three books (two co-authored and one co-edited). He is a founder member of the Light Weight Armor Group and is a long-standing DYMAT activist. He has helped shape the research strategy of the Institute of Shock Physics. Outside of Physics and Engineering he is a devotee of West Coast Psychedelic Electric Rock Music.

Reviews

"Dodd and Bai wrote the 1992 first edition as an introduction to adiabatic shear bands. They figure they did a good job because the field has grown so huge that by the time they wanted to update their book, they needed to call specialists to cover various aspects. It remains an introduction, they say, but now to a thriving discipline."--Reference and Research Book News, December 2012