> I have a steel duct that is to be designed for, among other things,
> a "severe pressure pulse" load that lasts 10 milliseconds.
The rule of thumb is that a suddenly applied load causes twice the
deformation of the same load applied statically. Consequently the
stress is twice that of the stress from static application. The
ground rules for the rule are that the ramp up time be less than than
10% or so of the system period, that the dynamic response have
roughly the same shape as the static response and that you ignore
damping. The first is true by hypothesis; the second is normally true
for flat panels, but not necessarily for short cylinders with very
thin walls and the third is conservative, but not grotesquely so. The
basis for all this is the assumption that one vibration mode
dominates so your duct will respond like a single-degree-of-freedom
system and you don't have wave propagation issues.
If your client wants a reference, try Harris and Crede, _Shock and
Vibration Handbook_.
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chrisw@skypoint.com | this distance" (last words of Gen.
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1864)
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