TABLES AND CHARTS OF THE SHOCK RESPONSE OF NONLINEAR SYSTEMS (II),
Abstract
This paper presents tables and charts of loading ratio of the shock response of several nonlinear systems, and the composite C sub 1 - C sub 2 - C sub 3 charts. These data constitute a concise presentation of the response characteristics of a nonlinear system to shock loading, and are useful in many applications. The present report is con cerned with two types of springs: (1) elastic, softening, cubic spring, (2) bilinear springs, which includes a spring with perfectly plastic yielding characteristics as a special case. The bulk of the material is related to a halfsine pulse. However, the results for quarter-cosine pulse, (one with zero rise-time) a double-square pulse (one with zero area or total impulse), and an impulsive loading with constant decay ( a delta function at tau = 0 followed by a constant deceleration, with zero total area, i.e., a triangular 'velocity pulse'), are also presented. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1961
- Accession Number
- AD0607930
Entities
People
- R. N. Schreiner
- Y. C. Fung
Organizations
- TRW Inc.