Damping characteristics of electro-rheological fluid sandwich beams

Phani, Srikantha A and Venkatraman, Karthik (2005) Damping characteristics of electro-rheological fluid sandwich beams. In: Acta Mechanica, 180 (1&4). pp. 195-201.

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Abstract

This paper presents experiments aimed to critically examine the damping mechanisms in sandwich beams filled with electro-rheological (ER) fluids. ER fluids made from silicone oil and with different concentrations of starch are used in the present Study. It is observed that loss factors increase with increase in the applied electric field and concentration of starch. It is also observed that the complex hysteresis behavior of ER fluids is less dominant in sandwich structures.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Acta Mechanica
Publisher:	Springer
Additional Information:	Copyright for this article belongs to Springer.
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Aerospace Engineering(Formerly Aeronautical Engineering)
Date Deposited:	14 Feb 2006
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:23
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/5347

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