STRAIN-RATE AND INERTIA EFFECTS IN THE COLLAPSE OF 2 TYPES OF ENERGY-ABSORBING STRUCTURE
STRAIN-RATE AND INERTIA EFFECTS IN THE COLLAPSE OF 2 TYPES OF ENERGY-ABSORBING STRUCTURE
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DOI:
10.1016/0020-7403(84)90021-3
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
影响因子:
7.3
通讯作者:
ENGLISH, RW
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作者:
CALLADINE, CR;ENGLISH, RW
The dynamic plastic collapse of energy-absorbing structures is more difficult to understand than the corresponding quasi-static collapse, on account of two effects which may be described as the “strain-rate factor” and the “inertia factor” respectively. The first of these is a material property whereby the yield stress is raised, while the second can affect the collapse mode, etc. It has recently been discovered [6,7]that structures whose load-deflection curve falls sharply after an initial “peak” are much more “velocity sensitive” than structures whose load-deflection curve is “flat-topped” (Fig. 1a); that is, when a given amount of energy is delivered by a moving mass, the final deflection depends more strongly on the impact velocity. In this paper we investigate strain-rate and inertia effects in these two types of structure by means of some simple experiments performed in a “drop hammer” testing machine, together with some simple analysis which enables us to give a satisfactory account of the experimental observations. The work is motivated partly by difficulties which occur in small-scale model testing of energy-absorbing structures, on account of the fact that the “strain-rate” and “inertia” factors not only scale differently in general, but also affect the two distinct types of structure differently.