A New Testing Machine for the Dynamic Characterization of High Strength Low Damping Fiber Materials

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• 作者：R. Ceravolo ; A. De Marchi ; E. Pinotti ; C. Surace…
• 关键词：Dynamic characterization ; Prototyping testing machine ; Non ; linearity ; Damping ; Para ; aramid ; Silicon Carbide
• 刊名：Experimental Mechanics
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：57
• 期：1
• 页码：65-74
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• 刊物类别：Engineering
• 刊物主题：Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials; Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices; Structural Mechanics; Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control; C
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1741-2765
• 卷排序：57

文摘

This work describes a novel method for measuring the damping, the elastic modulus and the non-linear behavior of high strength low damping fiber materials such as para-aramids, silicon carbide (SiC) and carbon. The method is based on resonant response characterization of a spring-mass system excited by a sine-wave forcing term which is applied as a vertical force to the suspended mass. The damping is obtained from the measured resonance quality factor Q, the elasticity modulus is calculated from the resonance frequency, and the non-linear coefficient is obtained with the backbone approach from resonance profile variations as a function of the forcing term amplitude. It is argued that the method is very sensitive, to the point that a maximum excitation amplitude of the order of a few percent of resistance is sufficient to obtain an estimate of the non-linear coefficient. This claim is supported by experimental results. A testing machine is also discussed, which provides the necessary sensitivity at such small excitation amplitudes and the capability of evaluating very small damping values, as expected in high strength low damping fiber materials. The sensitivity is guaranteed by an optical position sensor with sub-micron resolution. To evaluate small damping values, particular care has been taken to ensure that energy dispersions in the generator are much smaller than energy dispersions in the fibers themselves. Examples of dynamic characterization are shown for para-aramid, silicon carbide, and carbon fibers.