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The original Softride beam had two hard layers sandwiching a stretchy middle layer. The damping was this middle layer being stretched (in shear) as the two outer layers flexed. Think of the middle layer being the differential in a drive axle on a car. There is a need to let the two outer elements travel different distances. The beam's middle layer did this. Andy.