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- From: davidm@questor.Rational.COM (David Moore)
- Subject: Re: Physics of an Air bag?
- Message-ID: <davidm.728088087@questor>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:41:27 GMT
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- rbatra@uceng.uc.edu (Rajesh Batra) writes:
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- >Hi,
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- > I am looking at the possibility of catching an object with
- > some speed (1700 m/s) and some mass (120 kg) with a stuntman
- > air bag.
-
- I want to be there when this happens (but standing well back)!
-
- The biggest problem with the analysis will be that, given the size
- of the bag that will be needed to decelerate an object from
- almost Mach 6 with reasonable rates of deceleration, the bag
- is not going to act as a lumped object. The bag is going to
- have to be real strong if the shock is not going to tear it.
-