Introduction:
This annual report describes research accomplishments for FY 98 of the Center for Simulation
of Dynamic Response of Materials. The Center is constructing a virtual shock physics facility
in which the full three dimensional response of a variety of target materials can be computed
for a wide range of compressive, tensional, and shear loadings, including those produced by
detonation of energetic materials. The goals are to facilitate computation of a variety of
experiments in which strong shock and detonation waves are made to impinge on targets
consisting of various combinations of materials, compute the subsequent dynamic response
of the target materials, and validate these computations against experimental data
