AXIAL DAMPING IN METAL-MATRIX COMPOSITES .2. A THEORETICAL-MODEL AND ITS EXPERIMENTAL-VERIFICATION Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • In the companion paper we describe a new experimental technique for resolving the phase difference between two electrical sinusoidal signals to an accuracy of 2/216 or 9.58710-7 radians. In this paper we demonstrate the use of that technique in measuring the intrinsic material damping of metal-matrix composites in axial tension using strain gages. In particular, the influence of ply, angle, , on the axial damping of a Pitch 55 graphite/6061 aluminum []s laminate is studied at a fixed frequency, a fixed strain level, and at room temperature. Recently, Ni and Adams proposed a model for predicting the flexural damping of a liminate from the flexural damping properties of a lamina. A close agreement between the model and the experiment was observed. As far as we know these are the first measurements of intrinsic material damping of metal-matrix composites. 1992 Society for Experimental Mechanics, Inc.

published proceedings

  • EXPERIMENTAL MECHANICS

author list (cited authors)

  • WREN, G. G., & KINRA, V. K.

citation count

  • 21

complete list of authors

  • WREN, GG||KINRA, VK

publication date

  • June 1992