A friction type damper unit has opposed conical wedge rings, on a wedge bolt plunger extending axially into a barrel connected to the body of a space vehicle, as in the payload bay of the space shuttle obiter. The plunger is connected to the softly sprung payload, as the inertial upper stage (IUS) in the payload bay of the vehicle. Friction shoes are slideable on the barrel and expandable by the wedge rings. The wedge rings are connected to the plunger through opposed balanced stacks of Belleville washers which provide the required high spring constant and balanced reversing forces.
Constant Force Friction Damper
1983
9 pages
Report
No indication
English
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