accidental impact loading
accidental impact loading
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has anyone any experience of designing for the above. I am primarily looking at impact loading from large vehicles on concrete structures. I can estimate the impact force but how does this transfer through a structure (concrete). Designing as static loading is i believe conservative as it does not take in account the time dependant nature of impacts.






RE: accidental impact loading
Others on this forum have suggested using energy methods to determine the forces on a structure in situations like these. Equate the kinetic energy of the impacting vehicle to the strain energy in the member under consideration. This should provide you with the deflection and, subsequently, design forces. Obviously, you must make several assumptions along the way (e.g. point of impact).
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But I believe I may have been be mistaken in my previous post, the kinetic energy is converted to potential (as in spring) energy in the structure.
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