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Propagation of Stress Pulses across a Liquid–Steel Boundary
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Propagation of Stress Pulses across a Liquid–Steel Boundary

  • D. H. TREVENA1 

Nature volume 203, page 291 (1964)Cite this article

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EXPERIMENTS have been carried out in which pressure pulses, of about 40-µsec duration, are propagated across a plane liquid–steel interface. For this purpose a slightly modified form of the apparatus described by Bull1 was used.

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  1. Bull, T. H., Brit. J. App. Phys., 7, 416 (1956).

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  2. Davies, R. M., Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc., A, 240, 375 (1948).

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  1. Department of Physics, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth

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TREVENA, D. Propagation of Stress Pulses across a Liquid–Steel Boundary. Nature 203, 291 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/203291a0

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