Abstract
This paper presents the impact response of simply supported rectangular Mindlin plates subjected to colliding of a steel ball by using the eigenfunction expansion method and the Hertz's law of contact. The effects of impact force, contact time and material properties on the mechanism of impact response generation and the characteristics of propagation of flexural waves have been investigated. It is seen that the initial impact response of steel plates and wooden plates subjected to colliding of a steel ball shows some different mechanism on the wave propagation. Beside the difference of mechanism of impact response generation, the sound pressure calculated by the present method on the assumption of plane wave shows good agreement of the acoustically experimental result.
