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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0722.00036.] Solutions of the form \(v^{\pm} (x,t)=\tilde v^{\pm} (x/t)\), \(\gamma^{\pm} (x,t)=\tilde\gamma^{\pm} (x/t)\) are sought to equations of the form \(v^{\pm}_ t +\zeta^{\pm}_ x (\gamma )=0\), \(\gamma^{\pm}_ t +v^{\pm}_ x=0\) governing the impact of a single phase elastic material, occupying the region \(x<0\), with a material, occupying the region \(x>0\), which admits the possibility of phase transition due to its strain energy density being a non-convex function of strain \(\gamma\). Thus the impact material may suffer discontinuities in strain across travelling surfaces which are either 'phase' boundaries or conventional shocks. The treatment relies on mapping from candidate solutions for both regions \(x<0\) and \(x>0\) to a \((\sigma^*,v^*)\)-plane, \(\sigma^*\) the contact interface stress and \(v^*\) the velocity there. For certain values of initial velocity of impactor \(\bar v = \tilde v(-\infty)\) in a certain interval \((0,\bar v _ 1]\cup[\bar v _ 2,\infty )\) a unique solution is obtained on the basis of the equations of motion alone. For \(\bar v\in (\bar v _ 1,\bar v _ 2)\) uniqueness does not hold and to resolve this appeal is made to the entropy admissibility criterion proposed by \textit{C. M. Dafermos} [e.g.: Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 106, No. 3, 243-260 (1989; Zbl 0707.35091)]for hyperbolic conservation laws and additional conditions applied to the energy density in \(x>0\). It is apropos to remark that in \(x>0\) strains for which \(\zeta ^ +<0\) are precluded by an admissibility condition. A number of the theorems are presented without the proofs.