@inproceedings{6498d36b93894ca7a3b5aecbb1414771,
title = "On the compressive and tensile strength of magnesium aluminate spinel",
abstract = "Magnesium aluminate spinel is a strong polycrystalline transparent ceramic. Spinel is an attractive material for armor applications and its behavior under shock wave loading is of obvious interest. The purpose of the present study was to determine the Hugoniot elastic limit (HEL) of this material, its Hugoniot response above the HEL, and its spall strength. Planar impact experiments were performed over the 2 to 40 GPa stress range using the Velocity Interferometer System for Any Reflector (VISAR) as a principal diagnostics tool. According to these tests, spinel has a HEL of about 11.3 GPa. The spall strength of the material was found to be close to zero at low, about 2 GPa, impact stress.",
keywords = "HEL, Magnesium aluminate spinel, Spall strength, Transparent ceramic",
author = "V. Paris and S. Hayun and Dariel, {M. P.} and N. Frage and E. Zaretsky",
year = "2009",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1063/1.3294968",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780735407329",
series = "AIP Conference Proceedings",
pages = "1003--1006",
booktitle = "Shock Compression of Condensed Matter - 2009 - Proceedings of the Conference of the American Physical Society Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter",
note = "Conference of the American Physical Society Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter, 2009 APS SCCM ; Conference date: 28-06-2009 Through 03-07-2009",
}