INTERNALLY DAMPED THIN-WALLED, COMPOSITE LONGIDUTINAL MEMBER HAVING DEDICATED INTERNAL CONSTRAINING LAYERS

摘要

An internally damped structure having a thin, segmented layer (10) of high modulus composite material acting as a constraining layer & bonded on both sides to layers of viscoelastic damping material (8) acting as shear layers. The arrangement forms a triple layer sandwich which is embedded in the wall of the structure. A compliant filler (12) is positioned between adjacent segments of the composite constraining layer. In an alternate embodiment, two such sandwich arrangements are embedded in the wall of the structure.