Research Article

An Updated Analytical Structural Pounding Force Model Based on Viscoelasticity of Materials

Table 1

Expressions and descriptions of parameters.

Contact casesParameter description

Polyhedral cylinder-to-rigid plane1 and are contact area and height of cylinder
Thin plate-to-rigid plane1A and are contact area and thickness of plate
Rigid cylinder-to-elastic plane1 is the radius of cylinder
Rigid sphere-to-elastic plane is the radius of sphere
Rigid cylinder-to-elastic plane (curvature surface contact)1 is the height of cylinder
Rigid cone-to-elastic plane2 is the angle of cone
Elastic curvature surface-to-elastic curvature surface and are radius of two contact surface
Elastic cylinder-to-elastic cylinder (parallel contact)1 is the height of cylinder