Abstract: It is commonplace in academia to base models of constrained-layer damping treatments on the assumption that the facesheets displace identically during transverse vibrations. This assumption is ...

Abstract: The chief tool for design of viscoelastic-based damping treatments over the past 20 years has been the modal strain energy (MSE) approach. This approach to damping design traditionally has ...

Abstract: There are internal-variable techniques that account for the frequency-dependent behavior of viscoelastic materials, but the temperature dependence of these materials has received much less attention. ...