Shock Survivability of Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We have studied the dynamic response of very complicated structures to transient shock-related excitation. We have defined a notion of complexity of dynamical substructures. We found that in the limit of infinite complexity, substructures can be accurately represented as very low order dynamical subsystems. We have obtained error bounds and estimates for these approximate representations, and derived older preexisting approximations as special cases of ours.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 05, 1999
Accession Number
ADA363045

Entities

People

  • Paul E. Barbone

Organizations

  • Boston University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Composite Materials
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Convolution Integrals
  • Differential Equations
  • Dynamic Response
  • Elastic Properties
  • Equations
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Frequency Bands
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Mechanics
  • Physical Properties
  • Resonant Frequency
  • Three Dimensional

Readers

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  • Materials Science and Engineering.