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Failure modes and criteria of plastic structures under intense dynamic loading: A review

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This paper reviews the failure modes and criteria of plastic structural members (beams, rings, plates and thin shells, etc.) subjected to intense dynamic loads, such as impulsive velocities or impact. Besides the three basic failure modes identified by Menkes and Opat [7] for impulsively loaded beams, namely,large inelastic deformation (Mode I),tensile tearing (Mode II) andtransverse shear failure at the supports (ModeIII), more complicated failure behaviours observed in the cases of complex structural members and/or dynamic loading conditions are summarized and discussed. All the failure criteria used in the relevant theoretical analyses includingelementary failure criterion, energy density criterion andquasi- static equivalent energy criterion, etc, are commented. Emphasis is particularly put on structural members with macro imperfections (for example, containing cracks or notches), where failures which usually originate from the imperfections are fracture-dominant so that local fracture criteria should be incorporated into the global structural failure description.

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Yu, T.X., Chen, F.L. Failure modes and criteria of plastic structures under intense dynamic loading: A review. Metals and Materials 4, 219–226 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03187766

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