Evaluation of Negative Stiffness Elements for Enhanced Material Damping Capacity
Friday, April 30, 2010 4:00 p.m. in ETC 4.120 Lia B. Kashdan The Product, Process and Materials Design Lab Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Research Laboratories The University of Texas at Austin http://www.me.utexas.edu/ Constrained negative stiffness elements in small quantities (1% to 2% by volume) implemented within viscoelastic materials have been shown to provide…