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Type: Journal article
Title: An experimental investigation into nonlinear dynamics of a magneto-rheological elastomer sandwich beam
Author: Yildirim, T.
Ghayesh, M.
Li, W.
Alici, G.
Citation: Smart Materials and Structures, 2016; 25(1):015018-1-015018-9
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Issue Date: 2016
ISSN: 0964-1726
1361-665X
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Tanju Yildirim, Mergen H Ghayesh, Weihua Li and Gursel Alici
Abstract: An experimental investigation has been carried out on the nonlinear dynamics of a clamped– clamped Magneto-Rheological Elastomer (MRE) sandwich beam with a point mass when subjected to a point excitation. Three sets of experiments have been conducted namely for (i) an aluminium beam, (ii) a MRE sandwich beam in the absence of a magnetic field and (iii) a MRE sandwich beam in the presence of a magnetic field. An electrodynamic shaker was used to excite each system and the corresponding displacement of the point mass was measured: for the third experiment (iii), an array of magnets has been placed at various distances away from the centre of the point mass to investigate the effect of changing stiffness and damping properties on the nonlinear dynamical behaviour. An interesting feature for the third group is the beam point mass displacement was no longer symmetric as the stiffness and damping of the system are increased when moving towards the magnets. Both the first and second groups exhibited distinct nonlinear behaviour; however, for the third group this work shows that for a low magnetic field the sandwich beam exhibits two distinct resonance peaks, one occurring above and the other below the fundamental natural frequency of the transverse motion, with the right one larger. For a larger magnetic field, these peaks even out until the magnetic force was large enough that the hardening-type nonlinear behaviour changes to a softening-type; a significant qualitative change in the nonlinear dynamical behaviour of the system, due to the presence of the magnetic field, was observed.
Keywords: Magneto-rheological elastomer; nonlinear dynamics; frequency-response curve; sandwich beam
Rights: © 2016 IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/25/1/015018
Published version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0964-1726/25/1/015018
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