Shock-induced reaction in several liquids

Single-shock experiments have been completed in several liquids using multiple, embedded, electromagnetic Lagrangian particle velocity and impulse gauges to measure shock waveforms. The liquids include acrylonitrile, bromoform, diiodomethane, phenylacetylene, bromocyclopropane, and carbon disulfide. Some of these are known to exhibit shock-induced reaction and others are considered to be candidates for reaction studies. The ''universal'' liquid Hugoniot, which depends only on initial condition sound speed, was used to calculate the unreacted Hugoniot. Sound velocities were measured for those liquids with no data available. The effects of shock-induced reaction are clearly identified in the particle velocity waveforms for some materials, but there are remaining questions about whether reactions occur in others. The most impressive results are that the full reactive, two-wave structure was measured in phenylacetylene. On the reacting materials with two-wave structures, the particle velocity waveforms had a decrease behind the top of the first wave. This is thought to be evidence of an early reaction which occurs at the top of the first (nonreactive) wave. 12 refs., 2 figs., 1 tab.