Table of Contents

Sound and Vibration Damping with Polymers: Basic Viscoelastic Definitions and Concepts ; Relation of Polymer Chemical Composition to Acoustic Damping ; Comparison of the Complex Dynamic Modulus as Measured by Three Apparatus ; Dynamic Mechanical Testing: Application of Polymer Development to Constrained-Layer Damping ; Direct Method for Measuring Dynamic Shear Properties of Damping Polymers ; Fourier Transform Mechanical Analysis and Phenomenological Representation of Viscoelastic Material Behavior ; Extrapolating Viscoelastic Data in the Temperature-Frequency Domain ; Selecting Damping Materials from Differential Scanning Calorimetry Glass-Transition Data ; Emission of Acoustic Waves from Polymers under Stress: Rheo-Photoacoustic Fourier Transform-IR Spectroscopy ; Mechanisms of Sound Attenuation in Materials ; Acoustic Coatings for Water-Filled Tanks ; Acoustic Wave Propagation in Materials with Inclusions or Voids ; Guided-Wave-Tube Technique for Materials Characterization ; Numerical Simulation of Acoustic Response ; Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Poly(tetramethylene ether) Glycol Polyurethanes: Effect of Diol-Chain Extender Structure ; Damping in Polydienes ; Requirements Imposed on Polymeric Materials by Structural Damping Applications ; General Approach to Damping Design ; Interpenetrating Polymer Networks: An Overview ; Acoustical Properties of Some Interpenetrating Network Polymers: Urethane-Epoxy Networks ; Advanced Damping Materials for Marine Applications ; Synthesis of Composite Latex Particles and Their Role in Sound and Vibration Damping ; Cross-Poly(vinyl methyl ether)-Inter-Cross-Polystyrene Interpenetrating Polymer Networks: Loss Modulus and Damping Behavior ; Vinyl Compound and Phenolic Interpenetrating Polymer Networks: Synthesis and Properties ; Dynamic Mechanical Response of In Situ Polyurethane-Poly(methyl methacrylate) Interpenetrating Polymer Networks: Influence of Kinetics of Formation