A NASTRAN Simulation of Temperature Dependent Viscoelastic Stress-Wave Propagation.

Abstract

A NASTRAN computer program is developed to model the one-dimensional stress-wave propagation in a viscoelastic bar exhibiting temperature-dependent material properties. Verification experiments were performed on methylmethacrylate rods with different temperature distributions and lengths by impacting the instrumented rod with an air-gun-launched projectile. The computer program is considered to be essential to the design of rain-erosion-resistant radomes for extended range artillery fuzes. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA023205

Entities

People

  • Thomas H. Zimmerman

Organizations

  • Harry Diamond Laboratories

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Guns
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Gun Launched
  • Rain Erosion
  • Simulations
  • Stress Waves
  • Stresses
  • Wave Propagation
  • Waves

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Structural Dynamics.