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Damping Properties of Materials
Damping Properties of Materials
Damping Properties of Materials
Oberst beam
Jean-Luc Wojtowicki, Luc Jaouen, and Raymond Panneton
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REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS VOLUME 75, NUMBER 8 AUGUST 2004
II. PRINCIPLE
A cantilever beam has the same dynamical behavior than
a free-free beam of twice the length excited in its center by a
normal imposed displacement Y 0, see Fig. 2. In this case, FIG. 3. Proposed experimental set-up: a composite beam excited in its cen-
only the even modes of the free-free beam will be excited, ter by a normal imposed displacement.
and its modal behavior will be similar to a clamped beam
冉 冊
since the slope and the relative displacement to the imposed
motion are null at this point. 2Y
EI 2 = 0 at x = 0 and x = L, 共4兲
An experimental set-up for the free-free beam excited in x x
its center is proposed in Fig. 3. The beam under test (with or
without damping material) is simply screwed in its center to where L is the length of the beam.
an electrodynamic shaker by mean of a threaded rod. In prac- These equations represent the bending moment and the
tice this is easy to set up; however care must be taken on the shear force at both extremities of the beam, respectively.
precision of the location of the center to avoid an unbalanced Conditions at x = 0 lead to a simplification of Eq. (1): C = F
system. and D = G.
The imposed displacement Y 0 along the normal axis at
the center point gives the following cinematic constraints to
III. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
apply on Eq. (1):
FIG. 4. Validation of the compact model, bare aluminum beam (L FIG. 5. Validation of the compact model, aluminum beam with an unknown
= 400 mm, w = 19.97 mm, H1 = 1.58 mm). adhesive layer (L = 400 mm, w = 19.97 mm, H1 = 1.58 mm, H2 = 0.13 mm).
E⬘ : Real part of the Young’s modulus, example shows that the compact model can also be used for
: Structural damping coefficient 共real value兲. composite beams. In the following, the results will not be
presented on such a wide frequency band. They will concen-
I is the equivalent second moment of area. The extraction of
trate on each mode separately, in order to obtain at least one
the material mechanical properties is made in a second step.
value for the damping and Young’s modulus for each mode.
Equation (7) is the “compact” model of the beam, because
The advantage of this method is to calculate the proper-
there is no need to make a modal decomposition, all the
ties of the composite beam using several data points and the
information is included in this single equation.
real analytical formulation for the curve fitting. The ASTM
E756 standard uses the values of the modal frequencies (read
B. Validation of the model at the peaks) and damping (measured with an n dB band-
The model has been validated using two beams. The first width method). The modal frequency is equal to the peak
one is a 400.00 mm long 共L兲 aluminum beam of 19.97 mm frequency as long as the damping is light, in the case of high
wide 共w兲 and 1.58 mm thick 共H1兲. The real part of its damping, the natural frequency should be corrected. Sec-
Young’s modulus E1 is 70.0 GPa and its structural damping ondly, the n dB bandwidth method is a quick way to evaluate
coefficient 1 is 0.0007. These values have been taken con- the damping and, actually, is not very precise. A curve fitting
stant for preliminary validation purposes. The results are method is preferable. However, usual curve-fitting algo-
given in Fig. 4 for a measurement point at the tip x = 0 of the rithms are based on trial functions, which are not the real
beam. The agreement between the model’s prediction and the function. The second objective of this work is to improve the
measurement is good. The modal peaks are well located, the precision of the determination of materials properties using a
measured and calculated levels are close. The measured function which depicts the real physical problem: Eq. (7).
curve is obtained using the set-up depicted in Fig. 3. Experi-
mental set-up will be discussed in detail in Sec. IV.
The frequency response function (FRF) between the C. Calculation of material properties
middle point where the beam is excited and the tip of the In the following, the approach is the same as the ASTM
beam tends towards 1 (0 dB) between two modes, the two E756 standard, the calculation of material properties are
points are vibrating in phase with the same amplitude. Near a based on the same models. The only difference is that the
mode, the response point reaches high amplitudes controlled ASTM E756 standard separates the Young’s modulus (real
by the damping. The frequencies of the modes could be pre- number) to the damping (real number) and makes two calcu-
dicted using the classical formulation for a cantilever beam. lations. In this study, all the moduli are complex numbers.
Conversely, those FRFs can be used directly to calculate the
mechanical properties of materials using the ASTM E756
standard for example. 1. Extensional damping
The second example (Fig. 5) is the result of the measure- When the damping material is unconstrained (glued on
ment on the same beam with an unknown double sided ad- one or two faces of the base beam), the treatment is called
hesive of thickness H2 = 0.13 mm. The Young’s modulus has extensional damping. As one of the faces of the material is
been adjusted, for the first mode, to obtain an equivalent free, the added rigidity is due to the bending. The determi-
complex modulus E allowing a good fitting of the calculated nation of the materials properties is based on the Ross, Un-
curve with the measured one for the first resonance. The fact gar, and Kerwin2,3 model for a multilayer structure. The re-
that the real part of the Young’s modulus and the damping ferred model allows to calculate the flexural rigidity E ⫻ I of
coefficient of the composite beam are not constant cannot be a multilayer beam or plate using the properties of the differ-
clearly seen on this scale although it can be verified. This ent layers (density, thickness, length, Young’s or shear modu-
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冉
EI = E1I1 1 + eh3 + 3共1 + h兲2
eh
1 + eh
冊
, 共9兲
IV. APPLICATION
The experimental set-up is shown in Fig. 6. The damping
layer is glued to the aluminum beam with a thin double sided
Estimations of the Young’s modulus and the structural adhesive. An electrodynamic shaker driven by a white noise
damping coefficient of a polyvinyl chloride based viscoelas- signal excites the multilayer in its center through a line dis-
tic material are presented as an application of the proposed placement. The tip motion is measured with a laser vibrome-
experimental set-up. This material of density 1260 kg. m−3 ter and the center motion using an accelerometer. To obtain
will be named material R in the following. displacements, one time integration and a double time inte-
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Rev. Sci. Instrum., Vol. 75, No. 8, August 2004 Elastic and damping properties 2573
gration are performed on the laser vibrometer signal, and on chical three-dimensional finite element software4 is used in
the accelerometer signal, respectively. the inversion to model the material R perfectly bonded onto
Note that the rod’s diameter must be minimum to sup- the equivalent beam defined in Sec. III B. A quasistatic
port the accelerometer and impose the local displacement. measure5 of material R Poisson ratio xz reveals an elastic
Measurements have been realized between anisotropy, 0.11. Although this value is not usual, it will be
980– 1000 mbar of static pressure with 10% – 20% of rela- used in the 3D simulation and assumed to be real and con-
tive humidity. stant in the frequency range of interest and in temperature.
This latter assumption can be challengeable.6
The rigidity of the previous base beam, with a double
C. Results
sided adhesive layer, is compared to the added rigidity due to
Figure 7 presents six FRF measurements obtained for the material R under test. These comparisons at various fre-
material R at temperatures from 30° C to 5 ° C. In this figure, quencies and temperatures allow to characterize material R
the frequency and temperature dependence of the material’s elastic properties.
stiffness and its structural damping is clear. The viscoelastic Figure 8 shows the variation of the real part of the
material stiffness decreases with temperature. Young’s modulus, in the x-direction, with frequency and
The thickness of the material sample is temperature for material R: E3⬘. These results are obtained
6.35 mm 共1 / 4 in.兲. The classical analysis for thin beams de- from measurements of Fig. 7 and the use of a Levenberg–
scribed in Sec. III C or in the ASTM E756 (Ref. 1) standard Maquardt inversion algorithm.7,8 The figure confirms the ear-
is not relevant for such a thickness. Consequently, a hierar-
FIG. 8. Variations of the real part of Young’s modulus E⬘3 with frequency FIG. 9. Variations of the structural damping coefficient 3 with frequency
and temperature for viscoelastic material R. +: 5 ° C, 䊊: 10° C, 䊐: 15° C, 䉭: and temperature for viscoelastic material R. +: 5 ° C, 䊊: 10° C, 䊐: 15° C, 䉭:
20° C, 쐓: 25° C, 〫: 30° C. Measurement points for each temperature are 20° C, 쐓: 25° C, 〫: 30° C. Measurement points for each temperature are
linked for the sake of legibility, not to suggest a linear evolution between linked for the sake of legibility, not to suggest a linear evolution between
these points. these points.
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FIG. 10. TTS application: master curve of the real part of Young’s modulus FIG. 11. TTS application: master curve of the structural damping coefficient
共E⬘3兲 real part at a reference temperature of 20° C for material R. 䊐: 3 at a reference temperature of 20° C for material R. ⴰ: measurements,—:
measurements,—: curve fitting of the fractional Zener model (Ref. 13). calculation using the local Kramers–Kronig relations from dispersion of the
Young’s modulus.
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