Pads or sheets

Pads or sheets of flexible materials such as elastomers, rubber, cork, dense foam and laminate materials.

Packaging material foam. Image reproduced from here

• Natural Frequency range: 3 – 40 Hz
• Pros:
  • Have high damping (~21%).
  • Low cost
  • Easily available and designable
• Cons:
• Not feasible for low natural frequency situation.

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