How Does Adding a Damper Affect the Stiffness of Springs in Parallel?

VooDoo · Oct 29, 2009

Hey guys,

I was just wanting to know, if there is a special way to add a damper in spring in parallel (as per the image below).

i know that springs in parallel is; 1/k(total) = 1/k1 + 1/k2...

nasu · Oct 30, 2009

Put the spring in a viscous medium.
Actually any real spring is a little bit like that.

Bob S · Oct 30, 2009

See section on damped harmonic oscillator in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_oscillator
Bob S

Barkan · Jun 3, 2011

spring coeff: k
damper coeff: c

total impedance is k + sc

in laplace domain

How Does Adding a Damper Affect the Stiffness of Springs in Parallel?

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