OBLIQUE IMPACT OF SIMILAR BODIES WITH CIRCULAR CONTACT

 Juergen Jaeger, Blattwiesenstr. 7, D-76227 Karlsruhe, Germany

Acta Mech., Vol. 107, 101-115, 1994

email: j_jaeger@t-online.de

Abstract: The general solution for tangential loading histories of similar bodies with circular areas of contact is outlined and applied to the tangential impact. Classical numerical methods use an interpolation function for the stress distribution on a set of points and obtain the stress distribution for given displacements by inversion of a linear equation system. Our solution avoids large systems of simultaneous equations and gives exact solutions for loading histories in form of finite, succesive displacement increments. The general equations of motion for the impact are derived and applied to the case, where the normal and the tangential equations of impact are uncoupled. The Nassi-Shneiderman diagrams of the contact algorithm and the impact algorithm are presented. The solution is compared with other results from earlier publications. A tangential coefficient of restitution, which determines the behaviour of the bodies after impact, is plotted as a function of two parameters.