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Vibration damping is becoming increasingly important for improved vibration and noise control, dynamic stability, and fatigue and impact resistance in advanced engineering systems. There is a particularly strong need for information on methods for improvement of damping in lightweight structural composite materials so that they may be more effectively used in the design of high performance structures...