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Published March 1963 | Accepted Version
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Longitudinal Strain Pulse Propagation in Wide Rectangular Bars: Part 1—Theoretical Considerations

Abstract

The propagation of a longitudinal elastic strain pulse in a wide rectangular bar is considered on the basis of approximate plane-stress equations of motion. Asymptotic expressions are obtained which, for large distances of travel, describe the pulse propagation in a semi-infinite strip with stress-free lateral edges, subject to the conditions that a uniform normal stress with a step-function time dependence is applied to the end and that the end is laterally constrained. Particular emphasis is given to describing the warping of plane sections during passage of the strain pulse.

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Copyright © 1963 by ASME. The results presented here were obtained in the course of research sponsored in part by U. S. Naval Ordnance Test Station Contract N123(60530)24917A and National Science Foundation Grant G-25896. Contributed by the Applied Mechanics Division for presentation at the Winter Annual Meeting, New York, N. Y., November 25-30, 1962 of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Manuscript received by ASME Applied Mechanics Division, June 12, 1961. paper No. 62--WA-69.

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