2009 Volume 50 Issue 2 Pages 427-429
The room-temperature damping properties of porous aluminum fabricated by the spacer method were investigated using the method of lateral resonant vibration in cantilever holding. In particular, the effects of the porosity and pore size, which are the representative parameters of porous metals and can be controlled well by spacer method, on the damping properties were focused on. The damping capacity increased with increasing porosity and pore size. Local stress concentration arising from the heterogeneity of porous structures seems responsible for the enhanced damping capacity under the condition in which the main damping mechanism is amplitude-dependent dislocation damping. The present results point out the importance of the porous structure control in damping properties.
