This volume concerns the fracture and fragmentation of solid
materials that occurs when they are subjected to extremes of stress
applied at the highest possible rates. The plan for the volume is
to address experimental, theoretical, and com putational aspects of
high-rate dynamic fracture and fragmentation, with emphasis on
recent work. We begin with several chapters in which the emphasis
falls on experimental methods and observations. These chapters
address both macroscopic responses and the microscopic cause of
these re sponses. This is followed by several chapters emphasizing
modeling-the physical explanation and mathematical representation
of the observations. Some of the models are deterministic, while
others focus on the stochastic aspects of the observations. Often,
the ov\ rall objective of investigation of dynamic fracture and
fragmentation phenomena is provision of a means for predicting the
entire course of an event that begins with a stimulus such as an
impact and proceeds through a complicated deformation and fracture
pro cess that results in disintegration of the body and formation
of a rapidly expanding cloud of debris fragments. Analysis of this
event usually involves development of a continuum theory and
computer code that captures the experimental observations by
incorporating models of the important pheno mena into a
comprehensive description of the deformation and fracture pro cess.
It is to this task that the work of the last few chapters is
devoted."
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