摘要 |
<p>The present invention provides an auxiliary torsional damper (110) of the surface-effect type capable of damping torsional spikes which may occur during operational transition through the system's resonance frequency. Preferably, the auxiliary damper (110) will be designed with a decoupling feature (114) such that the damper (110) will only provide auxiliary torsional damping for torsional oscillations which surpass a threshold amplitude. Since the surface-effect damper of the present invention is deflection dependent, the larger the magnitude of the torsional spike, the larger the damping that will be applied thereto.</p> |