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dashpot

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dashpot [′dash‚pät]
(mechanical engineering)
A device used to dampen and control a motion, in which an attached piston is loosely fitted to move slowly in a cylinder containing oil.


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The first is the Maxwell model, which consists of a spring and a viscous dashpot (damper) in series.
Knoop's early apparatus was commercialized in 1940 but a dashpot was soon added to slow the indenter (5).
Actuator elements are engineering elements (like contact or dashpot elements).
 
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