A study of internal and distributed damping for vibrating turbomachiner blades

Internal and distributed damping as possible methods for reducing the vibration response of turbomachine blades and theoretical methods for analyzing damped vibration were studied. It is demonstrated how the Ritz-Galerkin methods may be used to straightforwardly to analyze forced vibrations with damping. This is done directly without requiring the free vibration eigenfunctions. The Galerkin method is an effective technique for these types of problems. The Ritz method has the further advantage of not needing to satisfy the force type boundary conditions, which is particularly important for plates and shells. But proper functionals representing the forcing and damping terms must be developed, and this is done. Two types of damping--viscous and material (hysteretic) are considered. Both distributed and concentrated exciting forces are treated. Numerical results are obtained for cantilevered beams and rectangular plates. Studies showing the rates of convergence of the solutions are made. In the case of the cantilever beam, approximate solutions from the present methods are compared with the exact solutions

Control of Material Damping in High-Q Membrane Microresonators

We study the mechanical quality factors of bilayer aluminum/silicon-nitride membranes. By coating ultrahigh-Q Si3N4 membranes with a more lossy metal, we can precisely measure the effect of material loss on Q's of tensioned resonator modes over a large range of frequencies. We develop a theoretical model that interprets our results and predicts the damping can be reduced significantly by patterning the metal film. Using such patterning, we fabricate Al-Si3N4 membranes with ultrahigh Q at room temperature. Our work elucidates the role of material loss in the Q of membrane resonators and informs the design of hybrid mechanical oscillators for optical-electrical-mechanical quantum interfaces

Damping of optomechanical disks resonators vibrating in air

We report on miniature GaAs disk optomechanical resonators vibrating in air in the radiofrequency range. The flexural modes of the disks are studied by scanning electron microscopy and optical interferometry, and correctly modeled with the elasticity theory for annular plates. The mechanical damping is systematically measured, and confronted with original analytical models for air damping. Formulas are derived that correctly reproduce both the mechanical modes and the damping behavior, and can serve as design tools for optomechanical applications in fluidic environment

Ultrasound sensing using the acousto-optic effect in polymer dispersed liquid crystals

Acousto-optic effects are demonstrated in polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) films, showing promise for applications in ultrasound sensing. The PDLC films are used to image two displacement profiles of an air-coupled flexural transducers resonant modes at 295 kHz and 730 kHz. Results are confirmed using laser vibrometry. The regions on the transducers with the largest displacements are clearly imaged by the PDLC films, with the resolution agreeing well with laser vibrometry scanning. Imaging takes significantly less time than a scanning system (switching time of a few seconds, as compared to 8 hours for laser vibrometry). Heating effects are carefully monitored using thermal imaging, and are found not to be the main cause of PDLC clearing

Buckling and vibration analysis of laminated composite plate/shell structures via a smoothed quadrilateral flat shell element with in-plane rotations

This paper presents buckling and free vibration analysis of composite plate/shell structures of various shapes, modulus ratios, span-to-thickness ratios, boundary conditions and lay-up sequences via a novel smoothed quadrilateral flat element. The element is developed by incorporating a strain smoothing technique into a flat shell approach. As a result, the evaluation of membrane, bending and geometric stiffness matrices are based on integration along the boundary of smoothing elements, which leads to accurate numerical solutions even with badly-shaped elements. Numerical examples and comparison with other existing solutions show that the present element is efficient, accurate and free of locking

Omnidirectional broadband insulating device for flexural waves in thin plates

This work presents a gradient index device for insulating from vibrations a circular area of a thin plate. The gradient of the refractive index is achieved exploiting the thickness-dependence of the dispersion relation of flexural waves in thin plates. A well-like thickness profile in an annular region of the plate is used to mimic the combination of an attractive and repulsive potentials, focusing waves at its bottom and dissipating them by means of an absorptive layer placed on top. The central area is therefore isolated from vibrations, while they are dissipated at the bottom of the well. Simulations have been done using the multilayer multiple scattering method and the results prove their broadband efficiency and omnidirectional properties.This work has been supported by the U.S. Office of Naval Research under Grant No. N000140910554.Climente Alarcón, A.; Torrent Martí, D.; Sánchez-Dehesa Moreno-Cid, J. (2013). 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Transformation cloaking and radial approximations for flexural waves in elastic plates

It is known that design of elastic cloaks is much more challenging than that of acoustic cloaks, cloaks of electromagnetic waves or scalar problems of antiplane shear. In this paper, we address fully the fourth-order problem and develop a model of a broadband invisibility cloak for channelling flexural waves in thin plates around finite inclusions. We also discuss an option to employ efficiently an elastic pre-stress and body forces to achieve such a result. An asymptotic derivation provides a rigorous link between the model in question and elastic wave propagation in thin solids. This is discussed in detail to show connection with non-symmetric formulations in vector elasticity studied in earlier work