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  2. Damping - Wikipedia

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    Damping not based on energy loss can be important in other oscillating systems such as those that occur in biological systems and bikes [4] (ex. Suspension (mechanics)). Damping is not to be confused with friction, which is a type of dissipative force acting on a system. Friction can cause or be a factor of damping.

  3. Coulomb damping - Wikipedia

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    Coulomb damping is a type of constant mechanical damping in which the system's kinetic energy is absorbed via sliding friction (the friction generated by the relative motion of two surfaces that press against each other). Coulomb damping is a common damping mechanism that occurs in machinery.

  4. List of dimensionless quantities - Wikipedia

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    Fanning friction factor: f: fluid mechanics (fraction of pressure losses due to friction in a pipe; 1/4th the Darcy friction factor) [13] Fourier number: Fo = heat transfer, mass transfer (ratio of diffusive rate versus storage rate) Froude number: Fr

  5. Q factor - Wikipedia

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    The Q factor is a parameter that describes the resonance behavior of an underdamped harmonic oscillator (resonator). Sinusoidally driven resonators having higher Q factors resonate with greater amplitudes (at the resonant frequency) but have a smaller range of frequencies around that frequency for which they resonate; the range of frequencies for which the oscillator resonates is called the ...

  6. Harmonic oscillator - Wikipedia

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    In real oscillators, friction, or damping, slows the motion of the system. Due to frictional force, the velocity decreases in proportion to the acting frictional force. While in a simple undriven harmonic oscillator the only force acting on the mass is the restoring force, in a damped harmonic oscillator there is in addition a frictional force ...

  7. Impulse excitation technique - Wikipedia

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    Material damping or internal friction is characterized by the decay of the vibration amplitude of the sample in free vibration as the logarithmic decrement. The damping behaviour originates from anelastic processes occurring in a strained solid i.e. thermoelastic damping, magnetic damping, viscous damping, defect damping, ...

  8. Viscous damping - Wikipedia

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    In continuum mechanics, viscous damping is a formulation of the damping phenomena, in which the source of damping force is modeled as a function of the volume, shape, and velocity of an object traversing through a real fluid with viscosity. [1] Typical examples of viscous damping in mechanical systems include: Fluid films between surfaces

  9. Dashpot - Wikipedia

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    Their damping coefficients will usually be specified by torque per angular velocity. One can distinguish two kinds of viscous rotary dashpots: [3] Vane dashpots which have a limited angular range but provide a significant damping torque. The damping force is the result of one or multiple vanes moving through a viscous fluid and letting it flow ...