The DFG SPP 1897 ('Calm, Smooth and Smart - Novel Approaches for Influencing Vibrations by Means of Deliberately Introduced Dissipation') recently created an image film which ought to explain the research questions of the priority program to the general public. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Steeb as principal investigator and Dr.-Ing. Kianoosh Taghizadeh as researcher in charge deal - as involved people from the Chair of Continuum Mechanics - with damping properties of granular mixtures in their own project.