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Magnetically Tunable Vibration Transmissibility for Polyurethane Magnetic Elastomers

The effect of a weak magnetic field on vibration transmissibility was investigated for magnetic elastomers with various volume fractions of magnetic particles. Polyurethane elastomers without magnetic particles exhibited a natural frequency at 53 Hz and were insensitive to a magnetic field of 60 mT....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Endo, Hiroyuki, Kato, Shunsuke, Watanebe, Mayuko, Kikuchi, Takehito, Kawai, Mika, Mitsumata, Tetsu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6415059/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30966140
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym10010104
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Sumario:The effect of a weak magnetic field on vibration transmissibility was investigated for magnetic elastomers with various volume fractions of magnetic particles. Polyurethane elastomers without magnetic particles exhibited a natural frequency at 53 Hz and were insensitive to a magnetic field of 60 mT. The natural frequency for magnetic elastomers with a volume fraction of 0.23 was 115 Hz at 0 mT, and increased to 134 Hz at 60 mT. The vibration transmissibility was independent of the magnetic field. A linear relation between the natural frequency and (G/m)(1/2) was observed (G: storage modulus, m: mass), indicating that the observed vibration is basically described by a simple harmonic oscillation.