M. Kaliske et H. Rothert, DAMPING CHARACTERIZATION OF UNIDIRECTIONAL FIBER-REINFORCED POLYMER COMPOSITES, Composites engineering, 5(5), 1995, pp. 551-567
The main concern of this paper is the modelling of material damping in
composite structures. A method is derived to predict the homogenized
damping properties analytically. The procedure is based on the microme
chanical theory of a representative fibre-matrix cell. Since the dissi
pative phenomena cannot generally be defined;by a unique mathematical
model, an equivalent viscous damping model is suggested. On the struct
ural level damping can be analysed by the finite element method. Modal
damping is illustrated by numerical applications.