Impact Mechanics

This second edition of Impact Mechanics offers new analytical methods with examples for the dynamics of low-speed impact.

W. J. Stronge (Author)

9780521841887, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 15 November 2018

380 pages, 53 b/w illus.
26.1 x 18.3 x 2.4 cm, 0.84 kg

'… this is an excellent reference book for graduate-level students and professionals interested in non-colliding impacts. The rich theoretical content of this book alongside recent advances in experimental and numerical methods can provide engineers in particular with necessary knowledge and tools to design more effectively for complex impact problems.' Iman Mohagheghian, The Aeronautical Journal

Emphasising non-penetrating collisions, the second edition of Impact Mechanics develops several different methodologies for analysing collisions between structures - from rigid body theory for structures that are stiff and compact, to vibration and wave analyses for flexible structures. A valuable reference for both professionals and advanced undergraduate and graduate students, the book builds upon foundation courses in dynamics and strength of materials. Worked examples and end-of-chapter homework problems are drawn both from industry and sports such as golf, baseball, soccer and billiards. New chapters present a generalised theory of multi-body impact, as well as analyses of visco-elastic and visco-plastic impact. Effects of local compliance on impact dynamics are more generally described, and additional examples illustrating effects of friction during impact between bodies in either collinear or eccentric configurations are included.

1. Introduction to analysis of low-speed impact
2. Collinear rigid body impact
3. Planar or 2-D rigid body impact
4. 3-D impact of rough rigid bodies
5. Tangential compliance in planar impact of rough bodies
6. Continuum modeling for local deformation neat contact area
7. Wave propagation from impact on slender deformable bodies
8. Generalized impact analysis of multibody systems
9. Viscoelastic or viscoplastic impact
10. Impact against flexible structures
11. Propagating transformations of state in self-organizing systems
12. Impact of sports balls.

Subject Areas: Mechanics of solids [TGMD], Materials science [TGM], Mechanical engineering & materials [TG]