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  title info:
    title: History of Shock Waves, Explosions and Impact
    sub title: A Chronological and Biographical Reference
  name:
    name part: Krehl, Peter O. K.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XLIV, 1288 p. online resource.
  abstract: This unique and encyclopedic reference work charts the evolution of the physics of shock waves and detonations from the earliest investigations into percussion and impact phenomena right up to the most recent groundbreaking research in the field. The history of this long and complex process is first reviewed in a general survey that encompasses everything from the earliest observations and interpretations of puzzling high-rate dynamic phenomena associated with natural and man-made explosions to a discussion of the merits of modern numerical computer simulations. The subject is then treated in more detail and in chronological order in the central section of the book, while also being richly illustrated in form of a picture gallery. The bibliographic index provides 122 short biographies of eminent researchers who have contributed to the field. Further references for biographical sources are given, and both name and subject indices (with over 4500 and 2700 entries, respectively) are provided. "This book is of tremendous value to all who teach, research or write about the subject or, simply, are inquisitive about the people whose names appear in the text or bibliographies. The whole community is indebted to Peter Krehl for what has clearly been a labour of love and for what must surely become the "bible" of shock waves, explosives and impact" Professor John E. Field, FRS, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.
  table of contents: General Survey -- Chronology -- Picture Gallery -- Biographies Index.
  note: by Peter O. K. Krehl.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Geophysics
  subject:
    topic: Continuum physics
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Mechanics
  subject:
    topic: Mechanics, Applied
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Classical Continuum Physics
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  subject:
    topic: Safety in Chemistry, Dangerous Goods
  subject:
    topic: Geophysics/Geodesy
  subject:
    topic: Engineering, general
  subject:
    topic: Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
  classification: QC6.4.C6
  classification: 531
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      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783540304210
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