Wen-Feng Fu

Effects of layer thickness on impact contact in functionally graded-equivalent layered plates: An experimental, FE and semi-analytical study of table-tennis ball impact

Elastic contact of layered elastic plates is common in sports equipment and engineering systems, yet most impact-contact analyses of elastic spheres still rely on classical Hertzian theory based on homogeneous half-spaces. For a table-tennis racket, however, the impact occurs on a strongly heterogeneous layered plate c...