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253<br />

WOLFE MASRI,CAFFREY<br />

in parallel [2] <strong>The</strong> tested damper element incorporates stiffness only in the<br />

seal/piston interface and sikcone fluid compressibility, with the fluid passing through<br />

internal orifices lending the primary system force response Hence, the test setup<br />

isolates the damper element, resulting in a damping dominated restoring force instead<br />

of the stiffness controlled force defined in the simulation efforts This difference is<br />

readily observed from a detailed review of the phase plots in Figures 2 1 and 3 2<br />

While the simulated Duffing oscillator system response is clearly heavily dependent<br />

on the stiffness term, the measured system response from the tested damper is largely<br />

influenced by the damping parameter contribution<br />

0 06<br />

displacement (inches)<br />

Figure 3*2 Measured nonlinear damper response, broadband excitation<br />

4200<br />

2800<br />

1400<br />

2800<br />

4200<br />

02 03 03 04<br />

Figure 33 Comparison of measured and identified system force

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