Traditionally, the damping performance of a visco-elastic material is measured using the Oberst bar damping test, where a steel bar is excited using a non-contacting transducer. However, in an effort to reduce the weight of the vehicles, serious effort is put in to change the body panels from steel to aluminum and composite panels in many cases. These panels cannot be excited using a non-contacting transducer, although, in some cases, a very thin steel panel (shim) is glued to the vibrating bar to introduce ferrous properties to the bar so it can be excited. In the off highway vehicles, although the panels are made of steel, they are very thick and are difficult to excite using the Oberst bar test method. This paper discusses a measurement methodology based on mechanical impedance measurements and has the potential to be a viable/alternate test method to the Oberst bar testing. In the impedance method, the test bar is mounted to a shaker at the center (Center Point method). The damping performance is measured from the frequency response function obtained from the excitation force and the corresponding velocity level, both measured at the same point.


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    Title :

    Mechanical Impedance Based Vibration Damping Test


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Noise and Vibration Conference and Exhibition ; 2017



    Publication date :

    2017-06-05




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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