Measurements Of The Sound Velocity Of Shock-Compressed Liquid Silica To 1100gpa

The sound velocity in a shocked material provides information about its off-Hugoniot behavior of a material at high pressures. This information can be used to extend the knowledge gained in Hugoniot experiments and to model the re-shock and release behavior. Silica is one of the most important materials for equation of state studies because of its prevalence in the earth's interior and the well-defined properties of a-quartz. This article presents the sound velocity measurements of amorphous fused silica over the range 200 to 1100GPa using laser-driven shocks and an a-quartz standard. These measurements demonstrate the technique proposed by Fratanduono et al. [J. Appl. Phys. 116, 033517 (2014)] to determine the sound velocity from the arrival of acoustic perturbations. The results compare favorably to the SESAME 7386 equation-of-state table. The Gruneisen parameter was calculated from the sound velocity data and found to be Gamma = 0: 66 +/- 0: 05 at densities above 6 g/cm(3), an increase in precision by a factor of two over previous measurements. Published by AIP Publishing.