Silicones for bioinspired damping structures

Description

Living systems use soft multilayered protectivestructures like skin or fruit peel that can not only sustain high dynamic, butalso quasi-static mechanical loads while being built-up by a small rangeof basic materials. On the other hand, man-made dampers, builtto suppress vibrations and protect against impacts, use hardmaterials and soft materials, such as metals and elastomers, respectively.The latter are inherently dissipative due to their viscoelasticnature. Their stress-strain relation with its built-in phase-lag,makes them the materials of choice for simple and cheap dampingsystems employed in everyday life. We take inspiration in biologicalinspired dampers and show simple approaches to damping structures withadjustable stiffness based on silicone elastomers and discuss materialchoices and characterization methods.

Period	07 Jun 2022
Event title	EuroEAP 2022
Event type	Conference
Location	ItalyShow on map