The Plastic Extension of a Chain of Rings Due to Axial Impact Load

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 1978

Authors

J. F. Silva Gomes (Author) FEUP; S. T. S. Al-Hassani (Author) FEUP; W. Johnson (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: Int. Journal Mechanical Sciences

Vol. 20 No. 8

Pages: 529-538

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Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Other engineering and technologies

CORDIS: Technological sciences

Other information

DOI: 10.1016/0020-7403(78)90051-6

Abstract (EN): The plastic response of a chain of circular rings due to an axial tensile impact load was investigated both experimentally and in part, analytically. Chains were built-up from circular aluminium rings and subjected to axial impact loading at one end. High-speed photography was employed to record the development of the deformation process. It was found that plastic collapse was progressively transmitted to neighbouring rings in the manner of a plastic wave. To investigate the situation analytically, a simplified approach was adopted which assumed rigid-perfectly plastic behaviour of the ring material and arrived at an equation of the same form as the classical one-dimensional elastic wave equation.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific