Showing papers in "International Applied Mechanics in 1972"

Impact of a viscoelastic rod onto a rigid target

Abstract: w 1. A v i s c o e l a s t i c rod moves with speed v 0 in the d i r ec t ion of its axis towards a r igid ta rge t . We d e t e r m i n e the d i s p l a c e m e n t of points of the rod a f t e r impact . Le t the impac t o c c u r at the coord ina te o r ig in at the t ime t = 0. On the bas i s of a s y s t e m of equat ions of the h e r e d i t a r y t heo ry of e l a s t i c i t y we wr i te the equat ion of mot ion in t e r m s of the d i sp l acemen t of points of the rod, u(x, t), in the fol lowing f o r m :