NASA NTRS · 19720005749
Damper design from a structural engineer's point of view
Abstract
A nonlinear structural analysis, employing the nonlinear damper characteristics obtained from a damper test, was successfully performed on the Mariner spacecraft's solar-panel system, and the result was compared with results from a system-level spacecraft test in which some solar-panel tip dampers bottomed at a certain frequency. The analysis showed that the damper bottoming was attributable to a jump phenomenon that can result when a damper's response is not single-valued at some frequency.
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Chen, J. C.. 1971-01-01. Damper design from a structural engineer's point of view. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19720005749
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