Response of a Rigid-Plastic Ring to Impulse Loading

Abstract

Formulas are derived which describe the dynamic response of a ring of rigid-plastic material which is subjected to an arbitrarily distributed impulse load. When the impulse is distributed over half the ring in a cosine fashion, the final deformation is proportional to the square of the maximum magnitude of the applied impulse. Although the predominant deformation is in a bending or “ovaling” mode, one half of the incident energy is dissipated in the “membrane” or direct stress mode. The remainder is divided equally between bending (plastic work at the hinges) and kinetic energy.