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title: Friction Damping
created_date: 2026-01-21
updated_date: 2026-01-21
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tags:
  - engineering/concept
  - hardware
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# Friction Damping
The idea of friction damping is that vibrations are not directly transmitted from one object to the other if they are connected only by friction.

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If the orange plate (1) vibrates, the clamping structure in red (2) will vibrate less because some energy is dissipated as heat through the friction process.

I encountered this concept here: [The Hidden Tech In Freestyle Drones... - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17ibhclhzhw)

It is related to [[Material Damping]], where the inherent properties of the material dissipate Energy as Heat when its bending and transforming