Gordon Arnaut wrote:
Ernest,

You are right that springs and elastomers do not technically dampen kinetic
energy, they simply store and relase it at a later time (how much later
depends on the frequency at which it is tuned).

However, both springs and elastomers can achieve our objective of clipping
of destructive harmonics if they are tuned to the resonant frequency of the
object that we want to protect from resonance.



You don't listen to or read the work of others, and you like to read
your own writing way to much.


http://rotaryaviation.com/PSRU%20Zen%20Part%202.html




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