The Magnetoelastic Contribution to the Steel Internal Damping.

In this paper, the steel internal damping due to both the thermoelastic and the magnetoelastic phenomena has been investigated through a formulation based on thermodynamical potential joints with a hysteretic damping model. With the aim of focusing on the temperature transient in the solid, a first configuration has been considered, which is characterized by a steel rod with an imposed alternating pure shear strain in which only the thermoelastic contribution was studied. The magnetoelastic contribution was then introduced in a further configuration, in which a steel rod in free motion was subjected to torsion on its ends in the presence of a constant magnetic field.

Experimental and Numerical Characterization of High Damping Martensitic CuAlMn Sheets.

This paper deals with the experimental and numerical characterization of a high damping CuAlMn sheet with a martensitic micro-structure at ambient temperature. A Cu-Al-Mn shape memory alloy containing 11.65 wt.

A Numerical Method to Model Non-linear Damping Behaviour of Martensitic Shape Memory Alloys.

This article investigates the efficiency of hybridizing composites with thin layers of martensitic shape memory alloys for improvement of damping. The non-linear damping behaviour of martensitic shape memory alloys is simulated using a modified version of Masing's rules. The model was implemented in a user subroutine of a finite element code, and validated by a numerical simulation of experimental hysteresis loops at different maximum strain amplitudes.