The phrase "a damping of only" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in a technical context where you are specifying a limited or specific type of damping effect.
Example: "The experiment resulted in a damping of only the high-frequency vibrations, leaving the lower frequencies unaffected."
Alternatives: "a reduction of just" or "a suppression of only".
Precast ferrocement-only roofing channel showed no thermal lag or damping and traditional concrete slab roofing exhibit a thermal damping of only 13% and its thermal lag of zero.
Tetris in Tel Aviv might be a bit of a damp squib, but only because it had a deeper potential.
The response in terms of natural frequency and damping of a pile-only system is significantly more influenced by the soil than a full offshore wind turbine structure, and therefore ensures a higher degree of certainty regarding the assessment of the soil reaction.
The objective of the active feedback control law is to increase damping of selected modes only, in frequency regions where a disturbance is likely to produce largest effect.
In contrast to modal methods which provide measures of damping only at the modal frequencies of the test structure, the damping factor is determined over discrete, but regularly spaced, frequency values associated with the temporal sampling frequency.
(Nowadays I play time-coded digital sound files on disks with videos burnt into them and the dangers are extreme heat and liquid. A bit of damp will only give me 110 volt shocks – which is like being punched – but spill a drink over my mixer and I'm fucked and will leave the stage).
Dry your hair completely with a little bit of damp but only with a towel.
The approach used is to achieve a large increase of both natural period and hydrodynamic damping for only a small change of float mass.
At different levels of damping not only did the critical flutter velocity change but also the angle of attack at which it occurred.
In this paper it will be shown that the dominant mechanism of damping cannot only be due to supersonic radiation, but also to a fluid/structure resonance which enhances viscous loss.
