RESEARCH ON ENERGY ABSORBING STRUCTURES, PART III.
Abstract
The report includes three somewhat different studies related to expandable and energy-absorbing structures for aerospace application. The first study is a verylarge-deflection analysis of corrugated thin-shell structures employing the principle of minimum complementary energy in conjunction with a variational technique. A second area of study is an investigation of structural damping from hysteresis effects in metals associated with large inelastic deformations. Finally, a novel concept is introduced for a flexible metallic seal, and a theoretical and experimental study is described which demonstrates the feasibility of the concept as applied to a fuel expuolsion tank. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 1965
- Accession Number
- AD0615653