Damping characteristics of electro-rheological fluid sandwich beams

Acta Mechanica

Volumn 180, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 195-201

  Phani, A Srikanta ^a,b   Venkatraman, Karthik ^a,c  

^a University of Cambridge ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ELECTRIC FIELDS; FLUID MECHANICS; HYSTERESIS; RHEOLOGY; SANDWICH STRUCTURES; SILICONES;

ELECTRO-RHEOLOGICAL (ER) FLUIDS; SANDWICH BEAMS; SILICONE OILS;

DAMPING;

EID: 29144442043     PISSN: 00015970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00707-005-0250-2     Document Type: Article

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