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Evaluation of the accuracy of an accelerometer response generated by axial impact loading

Ranadive, Gauri and Deb, A and Haorongbam, Bisheshwar (2012) Evaluation of the accuracy of an accelerometer response generated by axial impact loading. In: CIRP Design 2012, 2012, Bangalore.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4507-3_17

Abstract

The basic objective in the present study is to show that for the most common configuration of an impactor system, an accelerometer cannot exactly reproduce the dynamic response of a specimen subject to impact loading. Assessment of the accelerometer mounted in a drop-weight impactor setup for an axially loaded specimen is done with the aid of an equivalent lumped parameter model (LPM) of the setup. A steel hat-type specimen under the impact loading is represented as a non-linear spring of varying stiffness, while the accelerometer is assumed to behave in a linear manner due to its high stiffness. A suitable numerical approach has been used to solve the non-linear governing equations for a 3 degrees-of-freedom system in a piece-wise linear manner. The numerical solution following an explicit time integration scheme is used to yield an excellent reproduction of the mechanical behavior of the specimen thereby confirming the accuracy of the numerical approach. The spring representing the accelerometer, however, predicts a response that qualitatively matches the assumed load–displacement response of the test specimen with a perceptibly lower magnitude of load.

Item Type: Conference Paper
Publisher: Springer London
Additional Information: Copyright of this article belongs to Springer London.
Department/Centre: Division of Mechanical Sciences > Centre for Product Design & Manufacturing
Date Deposited: 13 Mar 2014 06:31
Last Modified: 13 Mar 2014 06:31
URI: http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/48612

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