Study of anelastic phenomena in materials of engineering interest

Abstract

Mechanical spectroscopy (MS) studies absorption spectra of mechanical energy under the conditions of applied periodic external mechanical field, this technique is a powerful tool for the study of materials. In particular, it is shown that such a technique can help the mechanical characterisation of materials. The elastic and anelastic properties of the material have been investigated by using a vibrating reed technique with electrostatic excitation and frequency modulation detection of flexural vibrations mode of cantilevered mounted reed samples for a wide range of materials of engineering interest