The influence of different parameters on the impact behavior of laminated composite plates is considered analytically. A Rayleigh-Ritz energy method was used to spatially discretize the time-varying boundary value problem and a set of coupled, ordinary differential equations in time were obtained based on the discretized system Lagrangian. The effects of shearing deformation, bending-twisting coupling, and nonlinear contact behavior were included in the model. The resulting equations were integrated using the implicit Newmark beta method without the effects of rotary inertia. The results indicate that the effective mass of the plate is often an important effect in the response to impact events. In general, the influence of the constitutive behavior dominates for very low velocity impact, whereas the target mass properties become more important as the impactor velocity increases. This importance of mass clearly shows that impactor kinetic energy is not sufficient to characterize the impactor as the impactor mass is shown to have a large influence on the resulting dynamic behavior. In addition to these parameters, the effects of preload and material properties are considered and discussed.
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