Fragmentation of Rings and Shells
Subtitle: The Legacy of N.F. Mott (Shock Wave and High Pressure Phenomena)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: September 14, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9783540271444
Subjects: Stress & fracture; Science; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; Engineering - Mechanical; Sir Nevil Mott; Technology / Engineering / Mechanical; fracture dynamics; high-velocity impact; statistical fragmentation; Physics; Mechanics - General; Ferromagnetic materials; Fracture mechanics; Shock waves
First sentence: For a brief period during the latter part of World War II, N. F. Mott, then professor of physics at the University of Bristol (later knighted and a Nobel laureate), undertook an effort to theoretically describe the statistical fragmentation of bodies subje