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In this chapter: the scope of the subject; the fluidlike deformation of shock-compressed solids; modeling the shock as benign or catastrophic; the origins of shock-compression science; the pressure scale of events; the plan of the present work.
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Graham, R.A. (1993). Introduction. In: Solids Under High-Pressure Shock Compression. High-Pressure Shock Compression of Condensed Matter. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9278-1_1
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