Particle damping has emerged as an effective passive method to suppress unwanted vibrations in a range of engineering applications. By utilising the inelastic collisions and friction between granular ...

When you bring various complex mechanical and structural components together to form a functional motion system, modeling and predicting the resultant dynamics is usually difficult. Sometimes, the ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 110, Section 6: JOURNAL OF PASSENGER CAR: MECHANICAL SYSTEMS JOURNAL (2001), pp. 1489-1495 (7 pages) An experimental method to identify damping characteristics of a dynamic ...

I have been involved in research into vibration damping technologies since the early 1990s and have been a member of academic staff since 2004. I have research projects with many different industries ...

When everything shakes, precision is usually impossible – everybody who has ever tried to take a photo with shaky hands or make handwritten notes on a bumpy bus journey knows that. With technical ...

Vibration-absorbing, sound-damping materials such as sheets of rubber and expanded foam tend to be thick, bulky and soft. A new material is a big exception to that tendency, however, as it absorbs ...