Welcome to a New Era
in Structural Damping
Kinetica is the world leader in the design, implementation, and installation of cutting-edge solid-damping technologies for civil structural applications. From reducing vibrations to improving resilience, Kinetica engineers strive to create safer, more efficient, and more sustainable structures using advanced damping, isolation, and vibration control technologies.
Kinetica’s solid-damping technologies are ideal solutions for new and retrofit projects that require mitigation of wind and earthquake loads, as well as serviceability related challenges of floor and stair vibrations amongst other types of dynamic loads. The evolution in solid-damping technologies is changing the way buildings resist vibrations.
For more information on Kinetica’s transformative solid-damping technologies, please visit our Products page.
For more information on Kinetica’s award-winning Viscoelastic Coupling Damper (VCD™) system for high-rise buildings, please visit our VCD page.
To see how Kinetica engineers can help improve your structure's performance and resilience, please visit our Services page.
Contact us to learn more about how your projects can benefit from the latest developments in advanced damping and vibration control engineering.
Why Solid-Damping
Solid-damping has undergone a significant transformation since its inception, and continues to evolve with the developments and advancements in materials sciences in automotive and aerospace engineering. Through the use of advanced polymers, solid-damping materials can be customized with specific damping and stiffness parameters for various ranges of displacement amplitudes and loading frequencies, enabling the design of damping devices and configurations with superior performance and durability for use in a wide range of structural applications.
Robust Technology
Since solid-damping materials were first used for structural applications over half a century ago, they have seen impressive developments driven by advancements in the aerospace and automotive industries - Kinetica engineers have developed and designed these advanced solid-damping materials specifically to be efficient for structural applications.
Geometric Freedom
Solid-damping devices provide damping and stiffness directly within the viscoelastic polymer material at the molecular level, when they are strained, enabling seamless integration into all types of structural systems.
Compact and Scalable
Kinetica’s scalable and compact solid-damping devices offer design freedom for any structural application.
Instantaneous Activation
Connected directly to the structure through specially detailed steel plate assemblies, solid-damping systems activate instantaneously, even at extremely small displacements, adding both damping and stiffness for all vibration amplitudes and types.
Fully Customizable
Kinetica’s solid-damping devices are readily available in a variety of configurations, but are also fully customizable to meet the specific requirements for each project.
Compliance Free
Kinetica’s solid-damping devices encompass all the properties for damping at the molecular level, eliminating the need for pistons, seals, pressurized fluids that are required for typical viscous damping applications – providing maintenance-free and compliance-free solutions for projects.