Identification of the damping properties of rigid isotropic materials by studying the damping flexural vibrations of test specimens

A technique for determining the damping properties of a rigid isotropic material from the experimental data on the damping capacity of elongated cantilever-fixed test specimens due to the internal and external aerodynamic damping is proposed. The following two methods for eliminating the aerodynamic damping component are considered: the extrapolation of the data on the damping capacity of a series of test specimens of different widths to the point corresponding to the zero width and the theoretical-experimental approach. The damping properties of the material are determined by the vibration logarithmic decrement depending on the amplitude of the linear deformation. This dependence is represented by a power polynomial. The polynomial coefficients are determined from the minimum condition of the goal function for the positive logarithmic decrement of the material vibrations. These coefficients are sought at the reference point by repeatedly solving the direct problem of determining the damping capacity of the test specimen from the given damping properties of the material. An example is considered to illustrate the identification of the damping properties of steel St.3.