Rendiconti Lincei - Matematica e Applicazioni

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Volume 17, Issue 2, 2006, pp. 89–93

DOI: 10.4171/RLM/456

A theory of plastic splashing

Piero Villaggio (1)

(1) Facoltà di Ingegneria, Università di Pisa, Via Diotisalvi, 2, 56126, PISA, ITALY

The fall on the ground of a highly deformable body is followed by a remarkable spread of the material on the plane of fall. Here we propose a model for determining the extent of the splashed mass and the time of arrest after the first contact with the ground.

Keywords: Plastic impact, uniform energy method