Experimental investigation on vibration characteristics of sandwich beams with magnetorheological elastomers cores

Abstract

A sandwich beam specimen was fabricated by treating with MR elastomers between two thin aluminum face-plates. Experiment was carried out to investigate the vibration responses of the sandwich beam with respect to the intensity of the magnetic field and excitation frequencies. The results show that the sandwich beams with MR elastomers cores have the capabilities of shifting natural frequencies and the vibration amplitudes decrease with the variation of the intensity of external magnetic field.

Keywords

magnetorheological (MR) elastomer / sandwich beam / vibration response / dynamical characteristic

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