Vibration Control and Optimization in Composite Structural Elements by Use of Add-On Viscoelastic Materials

摘要

The focus of the study was in three areas: (1) Development of new and efficientmodels for accurate prediction of structural damping ability; (2) Development and application of new strategies to the associated optimization problem, i.e., damping layer redistribution for maximizing damping subject to static stiffness, stress, weight and frequency constraints and (3) experimental quantification for comparison with analytical predictions.