In this work innovative coating solutions are presented and their damping behaviour experimentally is investigated by means of dynamic measurements on specimens in the form of coated slender beams. The effectiveness of the different solutions is compared by means of a damping estimator and the results are discussed. A multilayer beam model, taking into account of the dissipative actions at the interface between the layers by means of a complex interlaminar impedance, is also presented. Some model application examples and some prototype solutions based on organic polymers are shown.
