Analysis of damping characteristics for viscoelastic laminated beams (Q5938297)

Vibration is normally viewed as undesirable, not only owing to the resulting unpleasant motions, noise, and dynamic stress possibly leading to fatigue and failure of the structure or machine, but also owing to the energy losses and degraded performance. Thus understanding the damping characteristics of viscoelastically damped structures becomes necessary. This study analyze the design parameters for constrained layer damping structures by employing the Ross-Kerwin-Ungar model. Finally, the authors discuss the effects of temperature, frequency and dimensions of damped structures on vibration damping characteristics.