A Study on Damping of Laminated Beams by Modal Analysis

The paper presents an analysis of the damping of laminated beams with four different stacking sequences. The experimental investigation was conducted using tensile cyclic tests for different laminates studied. The impulse technique was chosen to perform modal analysis of the ease of implementation and quickness of the test. The numerical analysis is performed by the finite element method using beam element. The difference between strain energies for both cases damaged and undamaged are calculated by the finite element method. The structural damping of the different beams is evaluated from these energies. The decrease in frequency for different rates of loading shows the loss of stiffness for all materials studied.