UNLOADING WAVES FOR COMBINED LONGITUDINAL AND TORSIONAL PLASTIC WAVES

Abstract

Assuming a one-dimensional rate independent theory of combined longitudinal and torsional plastic wave propagation in a thin-walled tube, it is shown that the velocity of unloading waves, c sub u, must satisfy either c sub s < c sub u < c sub 2 or c sub f < c sub u < c sub o where c sub s and c sub f are respectively the velocities of slow and fast plastic waves of combined stress. c sub 2 and c sub o are respectively the elastic shear wave speed and the elastic bar velocity. It is also shown that the velocity of loading waves (moving elastic-plastic boundaries across which loading takes place), c sub l, must satisfy c sub l < c sub s or c sub 2 < c sub l < c sub f or c sub o < c sub l. The general features of the discontinuities associated with each type of loading and unloading wave are established, and examples are presented of unloading waves overtaking simple waves.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0659971

Entities

People

  • R. J. Clifton

Organizations

  • Brown University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundaries
  • Department Of Defense
  • Discontinuities
  • Elastic Waves
  • Equations
  • Hardening
  • Materials
  • Modulus Of Elasticity
  • Scalar Functions
  • Secondary Waves
  • Shear Modulus
  • Shear Stresses
  • Strain Rate
  • Stresses
  • Unloading
  • Wave Propagation
  • Waves

Readers

  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics
  • Structural Dynamics.