Dampers and portals further manipulated the sound.
this incredible tuned mass damper kind of system.
LeMessurier expected the damper to reduce the amplitude of swaying by roughly 50%, and he saved around $4 million by not needing an additional 2,800 tons of structural steel.
And since that first damper in Citicorp, TMDs have spread across the globe.
But only if the tuned mass damper was working.
So it really put a damper on what was happening for a couple of years.
And it actually puts kind of a damper on the evening when that happens.
Some energy is dissipated through separate viscous dampers .
You can't make inertial dampers .
'cause I'm the father of the tuned mass damper .
Surely we must be able to make inertial dampers .
Inertial dampers ?
With both the chevron bracing to channel forces to the stilts and the tuned mass damper to reduce sway, LeMessurier was convinced
Within hours of that meeting, LeMessurier acquired emergency generators for the tuned mass damper .
dripping in charisma like some of my colleagues is because I have clinical depression and it puts a little damper on things.
And we went up the volcano, which is what they suggested because higher elevation meant slightly damper conditions, meant more livable.
or aunts-- we're trying to teach problem solving, not just put like a damper on the behavior.
in the more peaceable business of designing rockets for NASA, assured his bosses that vibration dampers he had added to the rocket
Ah, now here's a favorite bit of physics-- the inertial dampers .
Could it be easier to install a system like this where you're actually moving the resonance instead of like a whole tune mass damper or,
He adopted something that had been regularly used in bridges, power lines and ships, but never before in a building: a tuned mass damper or TMD.
Of the 20 tallest buildings in the world, six include the tuned mass damper , and they're especially critical in typhoon or earthquake-prone regions.
Well, Margaret, the strikes, with the writers strike and the actors strike, has really put a damper on future plans.
When it falls with an enormous speed, water works like a spring and the soil on the ground acts as a damper .
Time machines and wormholes, that's like crazy stuff, but inertial dampers , all they do is make sure that you don't like get