A shock damper is disclosed. The shock damper may have a shear control apparatus through which a shear-thickening fluid may flow. In this manner, the shock damper may compress at different rates for different applied impulse forces, in response to the changing viscosity of the shear-thickening fluid.
LANDING GEAR SYSTEMS HAVING SHEAR-THICKENING AND SHEAR-THINNING FLUID RESPONSES
2016-08-18
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
Landing gear systems having shear-thickening and shear-thinning fluid responses
European Patent Office | 2016
|LANDING GEAR SYSTEMS HAVING SHEAR-THICKENING AND SHEAR-THINNING FLUID RESPONSES
European Patent Office | 2016
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