In recent years it has become clear that established views of the the motion of solids subject to shock compression are not valid at the microscale, and that refinements must be made to the theory if treatment of inelastic deformation, shock-induced phase transformation, chemical reaction, and many other phenomena is to advance. The chapters in this volume consider appropriate research objectives as we enter the new millenium.

Inhalt
1 Traditional Analysis of Nonlinear Wave Propagation in Solids.- 2 Paradigms and Challenges in Shock Wave Research.- 3 The Universal Role of Turbulence in the Propagation of Strong Shocks and Detonation Waves.- 4 What is a Shock Wave? The View from the Atomic Scale.- 5 Meso-Macro Energy Exchange in Shock Deformed and Fractured Solids.- 6 The Shock Wave as a Nonequilibrium Transport Process.- 7 Non-Equilibrium Evolution of Collective Microdamage and Its Coupling with Mesoscopic Heterogeneities and Stress Fluctuations.- 8 Responses of Condensed Matter to Impact.- 9 The Discontinuous ShockFact or Fancy?.- 10 What Is a Shock Wave to an Explosive Molecule?.- Acknowledgments.- References.