Synchrotron radiation as a tool to construct the shock adiabats of aerogel

Unique properties of aerogel, namely, high porosity with open pores, low thermal conductivity, optical transparence, make it attractive for practical applications and for research. One of the areas in which aerogel has won a wide application is connected with shock waves and other kinds of high-energy action. This is the reason of the attention to the investigation of aerogel behavior under shock load, in particular to the construction of its shock adiabats. Here we present the results of the construction of shock adiabats for silicon aerogel of different densities with the help of the developed methods based on the use of synchrotron radiation [A.N. Aleshaev, P.I. Zubkov, G.N. Kulipanov, et al., Fiz goreniya vzryva 37 (5) (2001) 104 (in Russian)]. New experimental data related to the range of moderate loading parameters.