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Constitutive relations for slip and deformation twinning behaviors of a number of metals, including α-titanium, copper, α-iron, and tantalum materials, are described over a very large range in imposed strain rates. The focus is on application to higher-rate Taylor (solid cylinder) impact tests, split-Hopkinson pressure bar measurements, and shock as compared with ramp-type isentropic compression tests and including simulations of the corresponding dislocation-based deformation behaviors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bertram Hopkinson was prescient in writing of the importance of better measuring, albeit better understanding, the nature of high rate deformation of materials in general and, in particular, of the importance of heat in initiating detonation of explosives. This report deals with these subjects in terms of post-Hopkinson crystal dislocation mechanics applied to high rate deformations, including impact tests, Hopkinson pressure bar results, Zerilli-Armstrong-type constitutive relations, shock-induced deformations, isentropic compression experiments, mechanical initiation of explosive crystals and shear banding in metals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]