Browsing by Author "Crocker, Malcolm"

Flywheels are used to store kinetic energy through the rotation of an inertial mass, which usually rotates at very high speeds. Generally, that energy can be extracted (using a motor-generator system) in the form of ...

Generally speaking, of the fundamental dynamic mechanical properties - mass, damping, and stiffness, damping is usually the most difficult to quantify. This is perhaps particularly true for composite materials which tend ...

Light composite sandwich panels are increasingly used in automobiles, ships and aircraft, because of the advantages they offer of high strength-to-weight ratios. However, the acoustical properties of these light and stiff ...

In applications where the use of lightweight structures is important, the introduction of a viscoelastic core layer, which has high inherent damping, between two face sheets, can produce a sandwich structure with high ...