• Look up damper in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A damper is a device that deadens, restrains, or depresses. It may refer to: Damper pedal, a device...
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    A tuned mass damper (TMD), also known as a harmonic absorber or seismic damper, is a device mounted in structures to reduce mechanical vibrations, consisting...
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    Damper is a thick home-made bread traditionally prepared by early European settlers in Australia. It is a bread made from wheat-based dough. Flour, salt...
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    The steering damper or steering stabiliser is a damping device designed to inhibit an undesirable, uncontrolled movement or oscillation of a vehicle steering...
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    A harmonic damper is a device fitted to the free (accessory drive) end of the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine to counter torsional and resonance...
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    A damper is a valve or plate that stops or regulates the flow of air inside a duct, chimney, VAV box, air handler, or other air-handling equipment. A damper...
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    The damper winding (also amortisseur winding) is a squirrel-cage-like winding on the rotor of a typical synchronous electric machine. It is used to dampen...
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    Fire dampers (or fire shutters) are passive fire protection products used in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) ducts to prevent and isolate...
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  • A yaw damper (sometimes referred to as a stability augmentation system) is a system used to reduce (or damp) the undesirable tendencies of an aircraft...
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    A Stockbridge damper is a tuned mass damper used to suppress wind-induced vibrations on slender structures such as overhead power lines, long cantilevered...
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  • An inertia damper is a device that counters vibration using the effects of inertia and other forces and motion. The damper does not negate the forces...
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    mass-spring-damper model consists of discrete mass nodes distributed throughout an object and interconnected via a network of springs and dampers. This model...
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  • A magnetorheological damper or magnetorheological shock absorber is a damper filled with magnetorheological fluid, which is controlled by a magnetic field...
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  • Smoke dampers are passive fire protection products used in air conditioning and ventilation ductwork or installed in physical smoke barriers (e.g., walls)...
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    A flame damper, also known as a flame suppressor, is a device attached to the exhaust manifold of an aircraft engine that mixes air with the still-incandescent...
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  • An ERF damper or electrorheological fluid damper, is a type of quick-response active non-linear damper used in high-sensitivity vibration control. Zhu...
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  • A dashpot, also known as a damper[citation needed], is a mechanical device that resists motion via viscous friction. The resulting force is proportional...
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    yaw damper is a transverse mounted shock absorber used to prevent railcars and locomotives from swaying excessively from side to side. Yaw dampers prevent...
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    A blast damper is used to protect occupants and equipment of a structure against overpressures resultant of an explosion. The blast dampers normally protect...
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    A shock absorber or damper is a mechanical or hydraulic device designed to absorb and damp shock impulses. It does this by converting the kinetic energy...
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    Typhoon Soudelor swayed the main damper by 1 meter (39 in)—the largest movement ever recorded by the damper. The damper has become such a popular tourist...
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    by coupling the acoustic energy to the air. When the key is released, a damper stops the string's vibration, ending the sound. Most notes have three strings...
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  • damper; therefore, no complicated calculations are necessary. A vehicle contacts the ground through the spring and damper in a normal spring damper suspension...
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    - mass damper system". formula1.com. 28 July 2006. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. SEAS. "Mass Damper". "Banned! Tuned mass dampers · F1 Fanatic"...
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  • proportional to relative acceleration between the nodes. Under the name of J-damper the concept has been used in Formula 1 racing car suspension systems. It...
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    Sustain pedal (redirect from Damper pedal)
    A sustain pedal or sustaining pedal (also called damper pedal, loud pedal, or open pedal) is the most commonly used pedal in a modern piano. It is typically...
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    pedal (or una corda), the sostenuto pedal, and the sustaining pedal (or damper pedal). Some pianos omit the sostenuto pedal, or have a middle pedal with...
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    airflow sensor that is placed at the VAV inlet which opens or closes the damper within the VAV box to adjust the airflow. The difference between a CAV and...
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    Mount Damper Falls is a waterfall in the North Island of New Zealand on a tributary, Mount Damper Stream, of the Tongapōrutu River. The falls are located...
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    type of automotive suspension system that uses the top of a telescopic damper as the upper steering pivot. It is widely used in the front suspension of...
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