Abstract
The present article is the first in a series of three articles presenting results obtained by our team in a study on sandwich composite materials. The aim was to study the damping capacity of some sandwich structures used for a structural element of a machine tool that was reduced to scale (namely, a column), as well as all aspects of the material’s recyclability. The first stage of the study involved the characterization of the Polypad® composite material by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) coupled with energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry (EDX), Fourier transform infrared spectrometry (FTIR) and X-ray diffraction (XRD).
Keywords: composite; sandwich materials; characterization; recyclability; damping capacity