Self-damping cementitious composites with multi-layer graphene

Cementitious composites are quasi-brittle and susceptible to damage under dynamic loads. The addition of nanoscale fillers into cementitious composites is an effective approach to address this issue. In this paper, multi-layer graphenes (MLGs) are incorporated into cementitious composites to enhance its damping property. The underlying modification mechanism of MLGs to cementitous composites is also investigated. Experimental results showed that the addition of MLGs can effectively modify the damping property of cementitious composites. Compared with cementitious composites without MLGs, the damping ratio of cementitious composites filled with 1% and 5% of MLGs increases by 16.22% and 45.73%, respectively. The improvement of MLGs to damping property of cementitious composites can be attributed to the interlayer slip of MLGs, viscous friction between MLGs and matrix, and excellent thermal conductivity of MLGs. Moreover, the damping ratio measured by time-domain exponential decay method and frequency-domain half-power bandwidth method is consistent. (paper)