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Balance Pan Damping Using Rings Of Tuned Sloshing Liquids

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Edwin R. Williams, Darine El Haddad, V Generalova, Pierre Gournay, C. Hauch, F. Villar, Richard L. Steiner, Ruimin Liu

Abstract

This paper describes a new method to damp out balance pan oscillations even when the balance is operated in vacuum. The key is to tune the wavelength of the damping liquid, which resides in a sealed container attached above the pan, to the natural frequencies expected in the pan operation. We are investigating the practical application of this damping approach in our respective watt balance experiments. It is shown that rings of tuned liquids work well.
Citation
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
Volume
58
Issue
4
Pub Type
Journals

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Keywords

damping control, vacuum control, watt balance, wave damping
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Williams, E. , El, D. , Generalova, V. , Gournay, P. , Hauch, C. , Villar, F. , Steiner, R. and Liu, R. (2009), Balance Pan Damping Using Rings Of Tuned Sloshing Liquids, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=33055 (Accessed October 16, 2025)

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Created April 1, 2009, Updated February 19, 2017
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