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Elsevier, Composite Structures, (132), p. 215-225

DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2015.05.048

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Composite chiral shear vibration damper

Journal article published in 2015 by Fabio Agnese, Chrystel Remillat, Fabrizio Scarpa ORCID, Chris Payne
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Abstract

The work describes a structural composite damper concept based on a chiral auxetic configuration. Chiral structures couple uniaxial and rotational deformations to provide a negative Poisson’s ratio behaviour and high dissipation through shear strain energy, and this feature is exploited by up-scaling the deformation mechanism of the chiral cell to design a damper that dissipates energy in the edgewise/shear modes, like the ones occurring in wind turbine blades. The damper concept and its configuration are evaluated through a series of Finite Element parametric and probabilistic models. A small-scale demonstrator is manufactured and subjected to compressive cyclic loading at increasing maximum displacements. Good agreement between the numerical and experimental force-displacement and energy dissipated-displacement curves is observed, showing the feasibility of the chiral composite damper concept for vibration damping-related applications at low frequencies