EXPLAIN TENSILE STRESS AND ELONGATION DUE TO IMPACT LOAD – COURSE QUESTION

Impact loading remains one of the topics in Engineering Mechanics that is not expressively discussed. Understanding the dynamics of impact loads, forces and resulting stresses calls for well-crafted and procedural coverage. This work offers a comprehensive solution to a course question on tensilestress and elongation due to impact load, that, to this end, had remained unsatisfactorily answered. The question is seemingly an assignment preferred by professors when giving a test in the impact load topic. The question has appeared year after year, mostly in the exact form presented herein, or in a tweaked variation of the same. This work provides a step-by-step solution, with explanations, equations, and diagrams to help the student understand the entire context of the question. All calculations have been confirmed and presented in standard units

Students will find this solution helpful even in handling other questions in Impact loading mechanics