| Abstract: | The behavior of glass-reinforced plastic beams subjected to the action of a pulsed-distributed load is examined. The use of an electrodynamic apparatus producing a powerful magnetic field is described. Procedures for making strain-gauge measurements and recording the forces are outlined. The applicability of the Timoshenko theory to the dynamic bending of glass-reinforced plastic beams is demonstrated.Institute of Polymer Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR, Riga. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 5, pp. 868–873, September–October, 1974. |
