Download or read book Shock Wave Science and Technology Reference Library, Vol. 2 written by Y. Horie and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-04-26 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first of several volumes on solids in the Shock Wave Science and Technology Reference Library. This is a unique collection, and the library as a whole sets out to comprehensively and authoritatively cover and review at research level the subject matter with all its ramifications. All the chapters are self-contained and can be read independently of each other, though they are of course thematically interrelated.