Instrumentation for determining the local damping capacity in honeycomb sandwich composites

Journal of Testing and Evaluation

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 232-236

  Lincoln, J D ^a   Rieger, L E ^a   Earthman, J C ^a  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

Honeycomb; Local damping capacity; Loss factor; Periometer; Prepreg

Indexed keywords

LOCAL DAMPING CAPACITY; LOSS FACTOR; PERIOMETER; PREPREG;

DAMPING; HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; SANDWICH STRUCTURES; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS;

EID: 33845271441     PISSN: 00903973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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