Saturated duration of rectangular pressure pulse applied to rectangular plates with finite deflections (Q1267596)

This paper determines the saturated duration of rectangular pressure pulse for the dynamic plastic response of plastic plates by using approximate yield conditions. It is shown that the duration of the pulse applied to simply supported (or fully clamped) beam, simply supported circular plate, simply supported (or fully clamped) rectangular plate or square plate depends on three factors: the first one is the characteristic dimension of the structure, the second is the mass density of the material, and the last is the uniaxial yield stress of the material.