“…Although most of the recent work has involved the use of diamond anvil cells (DACs) to volume compress Ti in the static regime (for example, Ming et al, 1981;Akahama et al, 2001;Vohra et al, 2001;Errandonea et al, 2005), many studies have also utilised large volume presses to statically compress Ti (Jamieson 1963;Jayaraman et al, 1963;Bundy 1963;Bundy 1965;Zhang et al, 2008), and to a lesser extent, shock techniques have been employed to compress Ti in the dynamic regime (see Gray et al, 1993;Trunin et al, 1999;Cerreta et al, 2006).…”