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Soft Impact

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Impact of soft projectiles; Low-strength projectile impact; Soft body impacts

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Soft impact refers to high kinetic events in which a collision occurs between an object and a structure, being the mechanical properties of the first quite low compared with the later material. In a “soft impact event,” the projectile is greatly deformed and even damaged during the interaction with the impacted structure, contrary to “rigid impact event” in which the projectile almost remains intact during the impact process. The typical examples of soft impacts are produced in the aerospace sector such as hail or ice impact, bird strike, and tire fragment impact.

Introduction

During its service life, structures can be subjected to a variety of loading cases. Restricted to dynamic loading, impact is one of the most concerning case due to its possible disastrous consequences. Impacts on structures can be produced by the accidental or the deliberate hit of an object into the structure that...

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Artero-Guerrero, J.A., Pernas-Sánchez, J., Varas, D., López-Puente, J. (2019). Soft Impact. In: Altenbach, H., Öchsner, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Continuum Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53605-6_209-1

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