BEHAVIOR OF CRACKED EGGS AT NON – DESTRUCTIVE IMPACT

Abstract

The influence of cracks on the dynamical frequency response of eggshells was studied. The non-destructive impact tests of the intact and cracked eggs were performed. Record of impact force time history was enabled by experimental device. Response of eggshell to the impact was described by the surface displacement of the eggshell. This response was measured by the laser interferometry. The force and response were also expressed in the frequency domain using of the fast Fourier transform. Both time and frequency response were affected by the presence of cracks. It was shown that the influence of cracks on the eggshell response was more effectively described in the frequency domain. The frequency response was relatively very sensitive to the position and orientation of cracks. The frequency response function was characterized by many peaks. Five excitation resonant frequency characteristic of signals were extracted based on the difference of frequency domain response signals. Distinction between intact and cracked eggs was enabled by these parameters. Even if some main problems were solved some of them remained unsolved. One of them was the effect of the impacting body r shape. This problem could be effectively solved namely using of numerical methods. In order to describe the response of eggshell response to the non-destructive impact using of the numerical simulation exact description of eggshell shape was performed. This numerical simulation will be subject of forthcoming paper.