DYNAMICS OF PSEUDO-RIGID BALL IMPACT ON RIGID FOUNDATION
E. Kanso and P. Papadopoulos Int. J. Nonl. Mech., 39, pp. 299-309, (2004)

Abstract
This paper concerns the dynamics induced by the ideally elastic normal impact of a linearly elastic pseudo-rigid sphere on a rigid, stationary foundation. An impact map is derived and studied by numerical and analytical means. Periodic, quasi-periodic, and chaotic response is observed consistently with the symplectic nature of the map.


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