IIT Madras Researchers develop mechanism to help reduce vibrations in Automobiles

Researchers at IIT Madras has come up with a way to reduce vibration during the car rides. Check details here

A team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras have found a way to reduce the vibration during car rides, the institute said in a statement. The researchers who are working in the field of Carbon Nanotube Composites have found promising results in reducing the vibration which is expected to be useful in industries such as aerospace, automobile and construction. The research team is headed by Professor Prathap Haridoss, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Madras, along with students and co-scientists at the institute. The research is aimed at understanding the mechanisms of vibrations damping in polymers, that will, in-turn help in coming up with designs of better vibration dampers in automobiles. 

Professor Haridoss and his collaborators work with a special class of composites called polymer nanocomposites. The discovery that nanoparticles – particles a hundred thousand times smaller than the thickness of a sheet of paper – can afford extraordinary properties to polymers, is the basis of such composites, IIT Madras said in a statement.

Professor Haridoss said, “The outstanding properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) can tremendously improve mechanical, thermal and electrical properties of polymers. Of the numerous attractive properties of CNT-polymer composites, their vibration damping properties make them useful in aerospace, automobile and construction industries.”

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