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dry damping

physics

Also known as: Coulomb damping

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type of damping

In damping
…also called in this context dry, or Coulomb, damping, arises chiefly from the electrostatic forces of attraction between the sliding surfaces and converts mechanical energy of motion, or kinetic energy, into heat.
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