Download or read book Laser Driven High Pressure, High Strain-Rate Materials Experiments written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laser-based experiments are being developed to study the response of solids under high pressure loading. Diagnostic techniques that have been applied include dynamic x-ray diffraction, VISAR wave profile measurements, and post-shock recovery and analysis. These techniques are presented with some results from shocked Si, Al, and Cu experiments.