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Design and test of a friction damper to reduce engine vibrations on a space launcher

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Space launchers are submitted to complex vibration environments and this can impact the payload it is carrying. Ensuring the protection of the payload therefore requires the addition of a secondary system. In this paper, a rapid design method for the dimensioning of a friction damper is developed, based on the equivalent energy dissipation with that of a viscous damper. A friction damper is designed and a prototype is built. The friction damper is first characterised alone and it is then mounted inside a scale model of a launcher last stage. The friction damper is adequately modelled by a spring in series with a friction element. The damper prototype proves to efficiently damp the rocket engine vibrations, and the design method used for dimensioning the friction damper gives a good approximation for the optimal sliding force of the damper.

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Abbreviations

W c :

Dissipated energy per cycle in the viscous damper

W f :

Dissipated energy per cycle in the friction damper

k f :

Stiffness of the friction damper

F g :

Sliding force of the friction damper

p :

Pressure in the hydraulic jack of the friction damper prototype

f :

Excitation frequency

u 0 :

Excitation amplitude

F(t):

Temporal signal of the tangential force in the friction damper

u(t):

Temporal signal of the relative displacement across the friction damper

T :

Period of the temporal signals (inverse of f)

A :

Area of the force–displacement (F–u) curve

A + :

Area of the force–displacement curve above F = 0

A−:

Area of the force–displacement curve below F = 0

F n :

Normal force in the friction damper

F gp :

Positive sliding force of the friction damper

F gn :

Negative sliding force of the friction damper

μ :

Friction coefficient of the brake lining

A trap :

Area of the absolute value of the force signal F(t)

τ :

Ratio of sliding time to oscillation period of the friction damper

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    Denis Brizard, Sébastien Besset & Louis Jézéquel

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Brizard, D., Besset, S., Jézéquel, L. et al. Design and test of a friction damper to reduce engine vibrations on a space launcher. Arch Appl Mech 83, 799–815 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00419-012-0718-1

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