@article{StaatBallmann1988,
  author    = {Staat, Manfred and Ballmann, J.},
  title     = {Computation of impacts on elastic solids by methods of bicharacteristics},
  series = {Computational Mechanics '88 : theory and applications ; proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Engineering Science April 10-14, 1988, Atlanta, GA, USA ; vol. 2},
  journal   = {Computational Mechanics '88 : theory and applications ; proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Engineering Science April 10-14, 1988, Atlanta, GA, USA ; vol. 2},
  pages     = {1719 -- 1722},
  year      = {1988},
  abstract  = {Shock waves, explosions, impacts or cavitation bubble collapses may generate stress waves in solids causing cracks or unexpected dammage due to focussing, physical nonlinearity or interaction with existing cracks. There is a growing interest in wave propagation, which poses many novel problems to experimentalists and theorists.},
  subject      = {Bicharakteristikenverfahren},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{BallmannRaatschenStaat1985,
  author    = {Ballmann, J. and Raatschen, Hans-J{\"u}rgen and Staat, Manfred},
  title     = {High stress intensities in focussing zones of waves},
  doi       = {10.1016/B978-0-444-42520-1.50015-3},
  year      = {1985},
  abstract  = {The propagation of mechanical waves in plates of isotropic elastic material is investigated. After a short introduction to the understanding of focussing of stress waves in a plate with a curved boundary the method of characteristics is applied to a plate of hyperelastic material. Using this method the propagation of acceleration waves is discussed. Based on this a numerical difference scheme is developed for solving initial-boundary-value problems and applied to two examples: propagation of a point disturbance in a homogeneously finitely strained non-linear elastic plate and geometrical focussing in al linear elastic plate.},
  subject      = {Technische Mechanik},
  language  = {en}
}