Procedures for Damping Properties Determination in Metal Foams to Improve FEM Modeling

The aim of this work is to review the available procedures suitable for the determination of damping parameters in literature and standards for porous and dense materials and to evaluate their applicability to metal foams.Preliminary experimental setup and characterization data obtained with the selected procedures are presented and compared with representative FEM models. The experimental dynamic measurement on a test structure is compared with the simulated ones in order to validate the chosen procedure.