Although the incidence of floor vibration problems appears to be on the rise, the use of mechanical damping devices to control vibrations is limited. In a recent survey of vibration control methods, Murray reports that passive-mechanical damping methods, including viscous damping, visco-elastic damping, and tuned-mass dampers, have often gone untried outside the laboratory or have had marginal ...

Machine tool chatter causes an instability that can occur in tool-workpiece-machine system. Hence surface roughness and tool wear in metal cutting processes. This instability caused by interaction between current tool positions and surface left by previous tool passes. Many methods have been developed to minimize the effects of regenerative chatter in machine tools and to enhance the damping ca...