Dynamic plastic response of a circular plate based on unified strength theory

Abstract The study and design of structures under dynamic loads require a knowledge of the plastic response and deformation behavior under impact loading. The calculations of dynamic plastic response of structures are useful for the design and investigation of colliding vehicle, engine and various impacting structures. The unified solutions of dynamic plastic load-carrying capacities, moment fields and velocity fields of a simply supported circular plate are introduced. The strength is different in tension and compression and the effect on the yield criteria is taken into account by using the unified strength theory. Upper bound and lower bound plastic responses of the plate, under moderate partial uniformly distributed impulsive loading, are obtained. The static and kinematical admissibility of the dynamic plastic solutions are discussed. The unified solutions of the static plastic load-carrying capacities, moment fields and velocity fields of a simply supported circular plate are also obtained according to the dynamic solutions in this paper. The solutions are suitable for many materials with or without different strengths in tension and compression and the effect of intermediate principal stress. The solutions based on the Tresca, the von Mises, the Mohr–Coulomb theory, and the twin-shear strength theory, as well as the unified yield criterion, are all the special cases of the unified solutions. The influences of the coefficient of failure criteria, b , and tension-compression strength ratio, α , on the dynamic and static solutions, are investigated. It is shown that the effects of different strengths in tension and compression and yield criteria on the dynamic load-carrying capacity are greater than in the static plastic limit state.