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Structure incorporating constrained shear damping (TN-MS-8)

Last updated on 25 April 2014 3:39

Constrained shear damping is damping in a structure which is produced by shearing a material of high damping capacity, incorporated in the structure, as the structure is deformed. The simplest construction is that of a sandwich where the damping material, normally a polymer, is placed between two flat sheets of...

Author(s): Beamond TW;Jerrison PR

Organisation(s): British Rail Research ;

1974

United Kingdom

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