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viscous damping

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viscous damping [′vis·kəs ′damp·iŋ]
(mechanical engineering)
A method of converting mechanical vibrational energy of a body into heat energy, in which a piston is attached to the body and is arranged to move through liquid or air in a cylinder or bellows that is attached to a support.


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The discretized equations of motion are obtained from the virtual work principle: [MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSION NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (3) Where [rho] and [mu] represent the mass per unit volume and the viscous damping parameter, u is the displacement vector, [?
Both viscous damping and elastic stiffness values increased with increasing tempering times for all samples.
 
 
 
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