Abstract
The development of damped structural materials is an area of current research with potential for high rewards. Resistively shunted piezoceramic fibers used as reinforcement in a structural composite mate-rial offer the potential to significantly increase vibration damping capability. Available data indicate the predictable nature of this electroelastic damping mechanism, an important concern in design. This arti-cle addresses the current status of an effort to develop damped composites using resistively shunted pie-zoceramic fibers, including modeling aspects, performance limits, design guidelines, and fabrication issues. Initial design guidelines take the form of a modified modal strain energy method. With longitudi-nally poled fibers, peak damping loss factors of 12% are attainable in principle, even at relatively low (30%) piezoceramic fiber volume fractions. Some 30-μm diameter piezoelectric fibers have been pro-duced using a solgel method, and details of poling and shunting are under investigation.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 887-892 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance |
Volume | 2 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 1 1993 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Materials Science
- Mechanics of Materials
- Mechanical Engineering