Critical comparison of viscoelastic damping and electrorheological fluid core damping in composite sandwich skew plates

Composite Structures

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 221-233

  Vishnu Narayana, G ^a   Ganesan, N ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

ER core; Laminate facing; Loss factor; Skew sandwich plate; VEL core

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DAMPING; ELECTRORHEOLOGICAL FLUIDS; FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; VISCOELASTICITY;

FREE VIBRATION; LOSS FACTOR; SKEW FIBRE-REINFORCED COMPOSITE LAMINATES;

SANDWICH STRUCTURES;

FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; LAMINATE; RHEOLOGY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; VIBRATION; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 33847687772     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2006.05.004     Document Type: Article

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