You can think of a dashpot like a hydraulic cylinder, or for a more generic comparison, like a cup of silly putty. When you press on it, the material resists movement and slows momentum.

Ask any electronics hobbyist or professional what the simplest building blocks of electronic circuits are, and they’ll undoubtedly say resistors, capacitors, and inductors. Ask a mechanically… ...

As a second example, consider the five-story building (having four-DOFs) shown below left that is experiencing harmonic seismic motion. The base motion has excited the first mode of the building. For ...