Engineering Transactions, 42, 3, pp. 263-279, 1994

Dynamic Compression of a Brittle Spherical Specimen

W.K. Nowacki
Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Warszawa
Poland

The dynamic compression process of a spherical specimen made of a brittle material in the split Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB) is described. The aim of the present paper is to determine the stress distribution over a spherical surface as a result of passage of a wave carrying compressive stresses. The specimen is treated as a quasi-rigid body, the wave process in the SHPB system being taken into account, however. Solution of such a problem is essential for the description of the disintegrating (crushing) process of rock materials, for instance.

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