Extreme damping in composite materials with negative-stiffness inclusions

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Summary

The experimental realization of this composite approach is described by embedding negative-stiffness inclusions of ferroelastic vanadium dioxide in a pure tin matrix, which exhibits extreme mechanical damping and large anomalies in stiffness, as a consequence of the high local strains that result from the inclusions deforming more than the composite as a whole.

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Published
2001-03-29
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Stiffness, Materials science, Composite material, Composite number, Stiffness matrix

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