Vibration damper
Metex

The environments in which equipment must often operate--oil, water, ozone, corrosion, and temperature extremes--are as critical to designing materials and assemblies that isolate shock and vibration as factors such as space limitations, shock loading capability, weight, radiation, and surface friction.

As a result of its interlocking loop construction--which couples resiliency with high damping characteristics and nonlinear spring rates--Metal Textiles knitted wire mesh offers unique properties for absorbing shock and vibration. It also provides dramatically improved performance in hostile environments. Each loop acts as a small spring when subjected to compressive loads, and will immediately resume 90% of its original shape when the load is removed.

Knitted wire mesh, in a compressed form, can handle shock loadings as high as the yield strength of the material itself. In fact, it is not uncommon for a one-inch-thick disc to absorb up to 100,000 pounds of loading--a level not obtainable with any other fabricated material. Loadings may be in any direction. Knitted wire mesh is also versatile: additional resilience, as well as reduction of surface friction, can be obtained by knitting plastic fiber in parallel with metal, in which case the metal wire acts as a structural support and binder for the plastic.