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FRICTIONAL DAMPER [1 record]

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Record 1 1986-06-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Building Insulation and Acoustical Design
DEF

A device consisting of a supplementary mass frictionally driven from a crankshaft at a point remote from a node, which dissipate vibrational energy in heat.

OBS

See "friction damping": LASTE, 1978.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Isolation et acoustique architecturale
CONT

(...) [il] existe un type d'amortisseur à friction (...) dont le principe de fonctionnement [est le suivant]. Un cylindre métallique est fixé à la masse (...) à isoler et se déplace verticalement sous l'action des forces auxquelles il est soumis, entre deux blocs métalliques qui sont fixés de façon à exercer contre ce cylindre une force de friction (...)

Spanish

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