Elastomer pads, dense closed cell foams and laminate materials are often used under heavy machinery, under common household items, in vehicles and even under higher performing audio systems. These are often used as machinery (such as engines) mounts or in vehicles. They absorb shock and attenuate some vibration.

Sorbothane is a proprietary, viscoelastic polymer composed of a thermoset, polyether-based polyurethane with a very high damping coefficient. Unlike pure viscous- or elastic-based materials, Sorbothane reduces vibrations over millions of cycles without degrading.

Vibration isolation is a commonly used technique for reducing or suppressing unwanted vibrations in structures and machines. With this technique, the device or system of interest is isolated from the source of vibration through insertion of a resilient member or isolator.

A vibration isolator is a device that can keep the vibration apart between two surface which are in contact and one of them is vibrate continuously while a vibration absorber is a device that can absorb the vibration and make it's intensity lesser.