VISCOELASTIC BEHAVIOR OF COMPOSITE-MATERIALS WITH CONVENTIONAL-POISSON-RATIO OR NEGATIVE-POISSON-RATIO FOAM AS ONE-PHASE

This article describes experimental investigations of viscoelastic properties of composites consisting of conventional and re-entrant negative-Poisson's-ratio copper foam as a matrix, with the following high-loss-filler materials: viscoelastic elastomer, solder, and indium. The viscoelastic properties of gallium and several ferrites were also determined. The loss tangent of the copper-elastomer composite substantially exceeded the (lower) Voigt limit; the loss tangent of the copper-solder and copper-indium composites were close to the (upper) Hashin limit for the two-solid phases and one-pore phase.