Rapid Penetration into Granular Media
Visualizing the Fundamental Physics of Rapid Earth Penetration

A multi-contributed reference that includes articles from some of the world's leading researchers, this book is a one-stop source of theory and application in granular media penetration, helping geoscientists and engineers navigate through the wealth of knowledge that has emerged in recent years.

Magued Iskander (Author), Stephen Bless (Author), Mehdi Omidvar (Author)

9780128008683

Hardback, published 28 September 2015

458 pages
23.4 x 19 x 2.8 cm, 1.13 kg

Approx.442 pages

• Introduction
• Behavior of Granular Media Under High Strain-Rate Loading
• Micromechanical Behavior of Sand Learned from Multiscale Kolsky Bar Experiments
• High-Speed Penetration of Granular Geomaterials
• Global Observations & Post Mortem Analysis of Penetration in Sand
• In Situ Characterization of Projectile Penetration into Sand
• The Use of Digital Speckle Radiography to Investigate the Internal Flow Fields During the Ballistic Penetration of Sand
• Multimodal Radiation Based Tomography and Diffraction of Granular Materials Using Neutrons and Photons and Instrumented Penetration Mechanics
• Grain-Scale Measurements During Low Velocity Impact in Granular Media
• Granular Impact: A Grain-scale Approach
• Refractive Index Matching: Microstructure Evolution During Impact Using Refractive Index-Matched Granular Matter
• Mesoscale Observations of Dynamic Penetration in Granular Media Using Transparent Soils
• Summary and Conclusions

Subject Areas: Stratigraphy [RBGH], Geology & the lithosphere [RBG], Volcanology & seismology [RBC]