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BrandonBerchtold
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- Would an A36 steel tube be able to axially transmit a shock wave with a peak pressure higher than the yield strength of the steel tube?
Would an A36 steel tube filled with liquid mercury be able to transmit a shock wave longitudinally through the liquid mercury with a peak pressure higher than the yield strength of the steel tube? My thinking is that since the shock wave is traveling normal to the tube wall, it should not be interacting with the tube wall. However, if the shock wave is pictured to be a disk of high pressure mercury, this disk should be exerting a force, equal to the peak shock pressure, outwards into the tube wall (granted this disk would be traveling at the speed of sound in mercury and not have long to exert said force on the walls).