ISSN: 1945-7553
CODEN: JTEVAB
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Improved Impulse-Frequency Response Techniques for Measurement of Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Composite Materials

Suarez, SA
Facultad De Ingeniera Mecanica, Escuela Politechnical Nacional, APTDO, Quito,

Gibson, RF
Professor, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID

(Received 7 April 1986; accepted 2 September 1986)

Abstract

The dynamic mechanical properties of composite material specimens are rapidly determined by using two new computer-aided impulse techniques. Small beam specimens are excited in either flexural or extensional vibration by an electromagnetic hammer with a force transducer in its tip, while specimen response is measured with an eddy current probe or accelerometer. A desktop computer/Fast Fourier Transform analyzer system is then used for rapid data acquisition and computation of the complex modulus by curve-fitting to the frequency response function.

Keywords:
composite materials, dynamic mechanical properties, damping, impulse testing, frequency analysis

Paper ID: JTE10991J
DOI: 10.1520/JTE10991J
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