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Viscodampers

GERB› offers Viscodampers

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GERB Viscodamper devices are viscous-elastic dampers that dissipate vibration energy in all spatial directions.

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Viscodampers - Research Notes

  • GERB describes the line's strengths as robust construction delivering high damping values in small spaces with near maintenance-free operation, and damping in all spatial directions from one device. The dampers are supplied inside a full vibration-control portfolio backed by in-house engineering, measurement, and installation services.

    In the competitive field, DEICON markets comparable viscous dampers for piping systems, buildings, and bridges, Taylor Devices offers fluid viscous dampers with structural force ratings up to two million pounds, and MAURER SE offers hydraulic dampers with a stated damping exponent range of 0.04 to 2.0 under EN 15129. GERB positions its viscous damper family within a combined offering of spring elements, tuned mass dampers, and isolation systems rather than as a standalone component catalog.

  • GERB's product pages publish application domains and brochure downloads rather than datasheet metrics such as force ratings, damping exponents, or stroke ranges, which competing pages publish directly: Taylor Devices lists force ratings up to two million pounds and stroke ranges, and MAURER states its EN 15129 conformity and damping exponent range.

    The offering is embedded in GERB's combined spring-damper system business, so buyers seeking a standalone damper component supplier face a provider oriented to engineered system projects. Quotation runs through an engineering contact form on the offering pages instead of published pricing.

  • GERB's milestones page records the patent of the first Viscodamper® among the founding-era entries of the company timeline, and the German edition lists the same event as the patent of the first VISCO damper. The company itself was founded in 1908 by engineer William Gerb to mount vibration-causing machinery on elastic steel-spring support.

    Engineering literature and plant surveys date the line's documented use from the late twentieth century: a 1985 Nuclear Engineering and Design paper describes full base isolation with helical springs and viscodampers, and an Energiforsk survey lists GERB viscodampers installed in Nordic plants since the 1980s and 1990s. The exact patent filing year is left to the German patent register rather than fixed from the timeline layout.

  • Viscodamper® is GERB's product line of viscous fluid dampers for machinery and structural vibration control. Each damper holds a highly viscous medium in its housing, and a freely moving piston shears and displaces that fluid to generate damping forces that scale roughly with velocity, turning mechanical vibration energy into heat.

    The dampers operate as single elements or combined with spring elements and act against shock loads as well as continuous vibration. Documented applications cover forging hammers and presses, turbines, pumps and blowers, earthquake protection of buildings and structures, tuned mass dampers, and damper systems for pipework, with a viscous wall damper model offered alongside.