I've been hammering away at a problem using inertial fields to simulate dynamic impact loading and I've run into a bit of a wall. I tried a simple experiment using a 6x6x1 inch plate fixed at one face in a 1g field and compared that to a 2g equivalent force on one face. The gravity field stresses were an order of magnitude greater than the static equivalent and the displacement was also much bigger. Am I getting my engineering rules of thum wrong or my math wrong or both?
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19 years ago