Computational simulation of dynamic impact problems
- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
Recent advances of computing methods make it possible to examine dynamic failure and complicated contact-impact load scenarios in time and space. The response simulation for these extreme load conditions needs to capture dynamic contact between the impactor and the deformable target and progressive failure in the target. Independently from the impact scenario, two basic approaches may be used to describe the failure process in an appropriate manner, namely the Discrete Failure Approach and the Smeared Failure Approach. In the contribution the dynamic impact of a pendulum test and the failure scenario in notched cylindrical specimens (Charpy-type IZOD test) are examined using the explicit dynamic finite element code DYNA3D. The study focuses on the question, whether the smeared crack approach is able to capture the dynamic failure process using von Mises plasticity with a plastic strain-based failure limiter. The computational results indicate that upon consistent mesh refinement the overall energy dissipation approaches the value observed in laboratory experiments.
- OSTI ID:
- 428125
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960706-; ISBN 0-7918-1772-5; TRN: IM9708%%454
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) pressure vessels and piping conference, Montreal (Canada), 21-26 Jul 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Structures under extreme loading conditions -- 1996. PVP-Volume 325; Shin, Y.S. [ed.] [Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA (United States)]; Zukas, J.A. [ed.] [Computational Mechanics Consultants, Inc., Baltimore, MD (United States)]; PB: 272 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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