This book is the result of collaboration between the Russian Federal Nuclear Center All Russian Scienti?c Research Institute of Experimental Physics (RFNC-VNIIEF) located in Sarov, Russia and the University of California Los Alamos National Laboratory (UC-LANL). The genesis of this project was the compilation of a set of lecture notes used by a number of leading VNIIEF researchers in courses taught to students of the Sarov Physical and Technical Institute(SarFTI)specializingin Theoretical andExperimentalMechanics. A revised and signi?cantly supplemented version of those lecture notes was...

This book is the result of collaboration between the Russian Federal Nuclear Center All Russian Scienti?c Research Institute of Experimental Physics (RFNC-VNIIEF) located in Sarov, Russia and the University of California Los Alamos National Laboratory (UC-LANL). The genesis of this project was the compilation of a set of lecture notes used by a number of leading VNIIEF researchers in courses taught to students of the Sarov Physical and Technical Institute(SarFTI)specializingin Theoretical andExperimentalMechanics. A revised and signi?cantly supplemented version of those lecture notes was...