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ArticleScientific reports2018

Escaping the Ashby limit for mechanical damping/stiffness trade-off using a constrained high internal friction interfacial layer.

A P Unwin, P J Hine, I M Ward, M Fujita, E Tanaka, A A Gusev

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

A P UnwinSoft Matter Physics Group, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
P J HineSoft Matter Physics Group, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
I M WardSoft Matter Physics Group, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
M FujitaThe Kaiteki Institute, Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings, 1-1 Marunouchi 1-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
E TanakaThe Kaiteki Institute, Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings, 1-1 Marunouchi 1-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
A A GusevInstitute of Polymers, Department of Materials, ETH Zürich, 8093, Zürich, Switzerland. gusev@mat.ethz.ch.
University of Leeds · GBMitsubishi Chemical Holdings (Japan) · JPETH Zurich · CH

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Abstract

The development of new materials with reduced noise and vibration levels is an active area of research due to concerns in various aspects of environmental noise pollution and its effects on health. Excessive vibrations also reduce the service live of the structures and limit the fields of their utilization. In oscillations, the viscoelastic moduli of a material are complex and it is their loss part - the product of the stiffness part and loss tangent - that is commonly viewed as a figure of merit in noise and vibration damping applications. The stiffness modulus and loss tangent are usually mutually exclusive properties so it is a technological challenge to develop materials that simultaneously combine high stiffness and high loss. Here we achieve this rare balance of properties by filling a solid polymer matrix with rigid inorganic spheres coated by a sub-micron layer of a viscoelastic material with a high level of internal friction. We demonstrate that this combination can be experimentally realised and that the analytically predicted behaviour is closely reproduced, thereby escaping the often termed 'Ashby' limit for mechanical stiffness/damping trade-off and offering a new route for manufacturing advanced composite structures with markedly reduced noise and vibration levels.

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