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- Links granular physics and planetary science through impact cratering
- Discusses essential factors of soft matter impacts based on various experimental results and intuitive dimensional analysis
- Provides a fundamental basis of the scaling concept and constitutive laws to understand impact dynamics
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 910)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book focuses on the impact dynamics and cratering of soft matter to describe its importance, difficulty, and wide applicability to planetary-related problems. A comprehensive introduction to the dimensional analysis and constitutive laws that are necessary to discuss impact mechanics and cratering is first provided. Then, particular coverage is given to the impact of granular matter, which is one of the most crucial constituents for geophysics. While granular matter shows both solid-like and fluid-like behaviors, neither solid nor fluid dynamics is sufficient to fully understand the physics of granular matter. In order to reveal its fundamental properties, extensive impact tests have been carried out recently. The author reveals the findings of these recent studies as well as what remains unsolved in terms of impact dynamics. Impact crater morphology with various soft matter impacts also is discussed intensively. Various experimental and observational results up to the recent Itokawa asteroid’s terrain and nanocrater are reviewed and explained mainly by dimensional analysis. The author discusses perspectives of the relation between soft matter physics and planetary science, because it is an important step towards unifying physics and planetary science, in both of which fields crater morphology has been studied independently.
Authors and Affiliations
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Dept of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Hiroaki Katsuragi
About the author
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
Nagoya University, Furocho, Chikusa, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Physics of Soft Impact and Cratering
Authors: Hiroaki Katsuragi
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55648-0
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Japan KK 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-55647-3Published: 15 October 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-55648-0Published: 07 October 2015
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 307
Number of Illustrations: 56 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour
Topics: Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics, Planetology, Geophysics and Environmental Physics