“…Barker and Hollenbach, 1972;Kanel, 1998;Kanel et al, 1998;Millett and Bourne, 2001;Bourne and Stevens, 2001;Bourne, 2003;Gu and Ravichandran, 2006); numerous investigations into the mechanical properties of different classes of materials have been undertaken (e.g. Steinberg, 1991;Meyers, 1994;Johnson et al, 1994;Kanel et al, 1997;Millett et al, 2002;Lopatnikov et al, 2004;and Zaretsky et al, 2005;Gebbeken et al, 2006;Gu and Ravichandran, 2006;Bronkhorst et al, 2006), and numerous phenomenological as well as microscopic models have been developed (e.g. Wallace, 1981;Steinberg et al, 1980;Swegle and Grady, 1985;Meyers, 1994;Kanel et al, 1995;Nellis et al, 2003;Bourne and Gray, 2003;Krü ger et al, 2003;and Chijioke et al, 2005;Boidin et al, 2006;Petit and Dequiedt, 2006).…”