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Similarity Laws of Geometric and Material Distortion for Anisotropic Elastic Structure Subjected to Impact Loads

Version 1 : Received: 2 March 2023 / Approved: 3 March 2023 / Online: 3 March 2023 (09:52:19 CET)

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Wang, S.; Chang, X.; Xu, F.; Li, J.; Wang, J. Similarity Laws of Geometric and Material Distortion for Anisotropic Elastic Plate Subjected to Impact Loads. International Journal of Impact Engineering 2023, 180, 104683, doi:10.1016/j.ijimpeng.2023.104683. Wang, S.; Chang, X.; Xu, F.; Li, J.; Wang, J. Similarity Laws of Geometric and Material Distortion for Anisotropic Elastic Plate Subjected to Impact Loads. International Journal of Impact Engineering 2023, 180, 104683, doi:10.1016/j.ijimpeng.2023.104683.

Abstract

Although the similarity laws were widely used in impact fields, the scaling relations of anisotropic elastic structures often were broken when the geometric distortion (not equal scaling in different spatial directions) and the material distortion (different materials used for scaled model and full-size prototype) were considered. To overcome the difficulty of geometric and material distortion, a directional framework of similarity laws, termed as oriented-density-length-velocity (ODLV) system, is proposed for the anisotropic elastic structure under impact loads. Different from previous similarity law systems using scalar dimensional analysis, the directional similarity law framework mainly considers spatial anisotropy for structural geometry and material parameters. Based on the oriented dimensional analysis and the orthotropic Hooke's law, directional dimensionless numbers and directional scaling relations with geometric power properties for the elastic modulus and the Poisson's ratio are presented systematically. By selecting the dominant material parameters controlling similarity, three important scaling techniques with correction of geometric width and thickness are proposed to compensate for the difficulty of distortion. A clamped square plate with different anisotropic and isotropic elastic materials subjected to dynamic pressure pulse is verified numerically and discussed in detail. The results show that the thin square plate prototype must be scaled to be the thinner/thicker rectangular plate, and the components of displacement, stress and strain between scaled model and full-scale prototype behave good consistency in both spatial and temporal fields.

Keywords

Similarity; Scaling; Geometric distortion; Anisotropic elastic materials; Structural impact

Subject

Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering

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