Evaluation of the Mechanism of Impact Test Setup
Structural elements such as shear walls, columns, beams, slabs, pipes, profiles, etc. no matter what material they are produced of could be imposed upon sudden dynamic impact loading throughout their service periods. Although design procedures of the seismic codes include vertical and horizontal load combinations, the effect of impact loading is usually ignored. Impact experiments are performed on different materials and objects by considering several techniques. In this study, it is aimed to investigate the working mechanism of impact drop weight test setup with the essential measurement devices such as accelerometer, load cell, lvdt, and data logger. For this purpose, details of impact experiments for various test specimens are presented. The time-dependent experimental outputs are also evaluated. In addition, the suggestions about the verification of experimental results under impact loading are proposed in the end.
Keywords: impact loading, measurement devices, structural elements, test setup
