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Kagome based high authority shape morphing structure is a kind of truss-cored sandwich metal plate with a planar Kagome truss as one of its face plane. The planar Kagome truss can achieve arbitrary in-plane nodal displacements with minimal internal resistance when its rods are deformed. Moreover, the in-plane deflection of the planar Kagome truss may induce the lateral deflection of the whole sandwich plate. In this paper, the feasibility to enhance the damping of the truss-cored sandwich plate through the replacement of a very small portion of rods in the planar Kagome truss by cylindrical viscoelastic dampers is exploited. The Biot model is chosen to simulate the behavior of the viscoelastic material in the dampers, and the fraction of axial modal strain energy of the rods in the planar Kagome truss is adopted as the index to decide the positions of the dampers. Through complex modal analysis and time-domain simulation, it is shown that the passive vibration control approach is very effective for the vibration reduction of this kind of truss-cored sandwich plates.
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Guo, X., Jiang, J. Passive vibration control of truss-cored sandwich plate with planar Kagome truss as one face plane. Sci. China Technol. Sci. 54, 1113–1120 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11431-011-4354-8
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