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What is a dashpot?

What is a dashpot? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A mechanical damping device consisting of a piston that moves through a viscous fluid (usually oil); used, in conjunction with a spring, in shock absorbers.
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A parallel association of one dashpot and one spring characterizes such a viscoelastic model.
The tailhook dashpot puts positive pressure on the hook to keep it from skipping over the wires on touchdown and had been drained for the up-lock change.
Passive temperature compensating hydraulic dashpot has been studied numerically as well as experimentally in this paper.
The first is the classical system consisting of a mass, spring, and viscous dashpot.
Equivalent rheological model whereby rate-and-state frictional instability is damped by viscous dashpot.
As an illustration, let us consider the combination of a spring and a dashpot in series.

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