In applications requiring high velocity interactions of energetic materials, the shock response of the crystal-binder interface is of great importance. We demonstrate a technique for capturing the high localized deformation of the crystal-binder interface using time resolved Raman spectroscopy at nanosecond intervals. A bi-crystal interface of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) sandwiched between sucrose crystals is used in the method, with the sample as a whole put on a glass surface and impacted from the opposite end. Aluminum cylindrical flyers with thicknesses of 25-50 um and diameters of 1 mm were accelerated utilizing the Laser Induced Projectile Impact Test (LIPIT) to create high velocity shock compression loads. The velocity of the projectiles was determined using heterodyne photon doppler velocimetry (het-PDV) and ranged from 0.5 to 1.5 km/s. Full field measurements of the 532nm Raman spectroscopic response were acquired using an in-house designed laser array configuration with 27 discrete laser subsets. The pressure and temperature distributions over the interface were calculated using the pre-calibrated peak shifts of the sucrose CH and CH2 bonds. The highly localized deformation generated by pressure and temperature rise as the shock front travels across the interface were measured in-situ by the time resolved Raman spectroscopic response. The results showed
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