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Three, Two, One... Fire!

Those words come intermittently from the lab of Vikas Prakas, PhD, and are often followed by an impressive impact. Prakas and his team of mechanical engineers are testing the behavior of different materials, such as granite and glass, under high rates of stress and using a high-tech digital camera capable of shooting up to 200 million frames per second to capture split-second events. Read more about this research (and photo) at case.edu/magazine/fallwinter2009/launch.html

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Uploaded on November 5, 2009
Taken on November 5, 2009