Plate impact experiments have been performed to assess the compressive behavior of a heavy Tungsten alloy under shock loading. Experiments were performed in the longitudinal orientation, and the response measured using embedded manganin gauges and free-surface VISAR to stress levels of ~ 24 GPa. The principal Hugoniot of the W-Alloy is compared and contrasted against published data on pure Tungsten and a number of Tungsten alloys reported in the literature.
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