Damper is a device to provide resistance to motion and reduce motion energy. It is not a new technology to use damping to absorb energy and reduce vibration. A variety of dampers (or shock absorbers) have been used to reduce vibration and energy dissipation in aerospace, aviation, military, gun, automobile and other industries. Since the 1970s, people began to gradually transfer these technologies to the construction, bridge, railway and other structural projects, and their development was very rapid. In particular, the hydraulic viscous damper with a history of more than 50 years, before it was accepted by the structural engineering community in the United States, experienced a long process of experiments, strict review, repeated demonstration, especially the earthquake test.
A device that can quickly stop the movable part of the instrument at a stable deflection position. In seismic instruments, the damper is used to absorb the natural vibration energy of the vibration system, and its damping force is generally proportional to the motion speed of the vibration system. There are mainly three types of liquid damper, gas damper and electromagnetic damper. Dampers play an important role in compensating the small friction and air resistance in the vibration pickup pendulum system and improving the frequency response