Dissipation Technology – Fluid Viscous

Dampers

16 WCEE – December 2016

 THE STRONGEST MANUFACTURING CAPABILITIES
FOR FLUID VISCOUS DAMPERS

• 24 000 m² factory
• Handling capacity : 80 tons
• Roof height : 13 m
• In house Plasma spray Coating
• In house HVOF Coating
THE STRONGEST MANUFACTURING CAPABILITIES
FOR FLUID VISCOUS DAMPERS
North America Europe
• Germany • The Netherlands • Spain
• Canada
• Austria • Luxemburg • Italy
• United States
• Belgium • United Kingdom •.Russia
(Douce Hydro Inc) Shelby Township •.Slovenia,
• Greece • Sweden
•. Norway • Switzerland •.Romania
•Ukraine

Asia - Pacific
Douce Hydro Romania • India
• China (Shanghaî)
Cluj Napoca - Romania •.Vietnam
• Japan
•.South Korea
• Saudi Arabia
• Pakistan
• Taiwan (Local Agent)
Africa – Middle East •. Australia
• Saudi Arabia
• Dubai
•.Abu Dhabi
• Morocco
South America •.Tunisia
• Mexico • Mauritania
• Angola
• Brazil – next factory
• Nigeria

Douce Hydro HQ - Main Manufacturing

Albert 80300 France
Jarret Structures

Douce-Hydro / Jarret Structures’ devices

use special fluids made of
viscous silicon.
Our technology, which has proven to be industrially
successful over the last 50 years, uses the fluids
characteristics to obtain device function

Fluid characteristics Device Function

COMPRESSIBILITY SPRING Function

VISCOSITY DAMPING Function

JS’s devices technology advantages

No leakage Maintenance free

The silicon fluid in always inside the cylinder body

No external pollution

No aging of the silicon fluid

No additional devices around or inside the damper

 JS’s devices technology advantages

CUSTOMER FEEDBACK
From: Francisco (Pancho) Medina [mailto:copihue747@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, December 9, 2016 2:51 PM
To: Franck VANDENBULKE <fvandenbulke@doucehydro.com>
Subject: RE: 16WCEE

The other day I visited the building and took some
pictures. I must report that in the two stories I walk
around, I inspected the dampers and I observed they
looked pretty good, no leaks.

Regards,
Francisco

No external pollution

No aging of the silicon fluid

No additional devices around or inside the damper

Alpha - Technology
Alpha - Technology

The influence of the alpha value

on the energy dissipation
Fluid Viscous Dampers (FVD)

Explanation Vf Sdiff

P2 P1 F

X,V
F F = Pressure x Surface
F = (P1-P2). Sdiff
Dynamic (P1-P2) depends on flow into Vf,
Reaction fixed by the velocity

X
Force depends on
velocity
Reaction at
low velocity F = C . Vα
FVD Standard – Dampers devices

ASR 3000-500-3200
Bridge Protection, Turkmenistan
ASR 300-150-230-0.15 with Keradouce coating
Wind bracing for buildings, Sacramento (USA)

ASR 1500-500-1450 ASR 2000-1700-130 & ASR 2000-1400-1300

Railway Bridge Protection, Greece Bridge Protection, China
Shock Transmission Unit
Explanation
A special valve is fixed between 
the 2 chambers No communication

F
P2 P1

X,V

F
V > Vcut
This device acts as a very stiff
X spring in dynamic loading
(during earthquake or braking)
V < Vcut
 STU Standard
Dampers at low velocity
Blocking devices at high velocity

AB 3000
Railway Bridge Protection, Korea
Combined technology (FVD-STU)
Project already delivered with this technology

Special reaction dampers fixed

on high speed train bridge
in Greece
Project already delivered with this technology

Special reaction dampers fixed on high

speed train bridge in Spain
Preloaded Spring Dampers
Explanation
Piston rod 
(section S)
F = P . S
F

F
P

X ==> P ==>  F
 Preloaded Spring Dampers

Transversal Preloaded Spring Damper (F0 = 2200 kN)

St André Viaduc, Fréjus (France)

Longitudinal Preloaded Spring Damper

Longitudinal Preloaded Spring Damper
(F0=1500 kN Stroke = 50mm)
Hight Speed Train, Epenottes viaduc (France)
Hight Speed Train, Perpignan-Figueras (France)
PSD Standard
 A 51 – Viaduc de Monestier – Seismic Application
12 PSD & 6 FVD (Jarret Structures)

FVD on Pier 3 (P7) Transversal PSD dampers with inox sliding plate

 Quality
ISO 9001 – 2000 certified CE certified FVD
Quality

Test Bench Capacity

for high frequency over
short stroke < 1 mm
Quality

In House cold chamber

for testing up to minus
40ºC
Quality
Third Party Laboratory Testing - EUCENTRE
Third Party Laboratory Testing - EUCENTRE
Custom Design FVD
Custom Design FVD with
pressure monitoring
 CBIST: Cable Brace Isolation System Technology
The CBSIST system represents an innovative
seismic protection strategy, especially attractive for
retrofitting existing reinforced concrete structures.
This technology is based on in-serie coupling
of fluid viscous spring dampers
and prestressed steel cables. The cables go through
the building storeys and exert
reaction forces on the floor-slabs which are in opposite direction to the
earthquake loads.
Model of the 8 storey M o d e l o f th e 8 s to re y
building equipped with DCS - b u ild in g e q u ip p e d w ith D C S
Layout “CHF 8” - L a yo u t “ C H F 5 ”
The energy produced
by the earthquake is
dissipated in the
dampers

H ig h gra de steel ca ble

S pring ela stic

d am pe r
 CBIST: Cable Brace Isolation System Technology
CGS Time-history
8 without DCS
7 CHF 5
6 CHF 8
Storey
The CBSIST system represents an innovative
seismic protection strategy, especially attractive for
retrofitting existing reinforced concrete structures.
This technology is based on in-serie coupling
of fluid viscous spring dampers
and prestressed steel cables. The cables go through
the building storeys and exert

5
reaction forces on the floor-slabs which are in opposite direction to the
4
3
earthquake loads.
2
1
0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 The energy produced
Interstorey drift (mm)
by the earthquake is
dissipated in the
dampers
CGS Time-history
8
7
6
H ig h gra de steel ca ble
Storey

5
4
S pring ela stic
3 without DCS d am pe r

2 CHF 5
1 CHF 8
0
0 50 100 150 200 250 300
Total displacement (mm)
CBIST: Cable Brace Isolation System Technology
Since each cable makes sliding contact with the slabs, its reaction includes
the damping force component supplied by the fluid viscous device connected
to it. The combination of the cable elasticity and device energy dissipation
gives rise to a highly performing protection system, characterized by lower
architectural intrusion and installation work as compared to traditional
rehabilitation techniques.
With some classical solution, damage will occur (shear walls for example) and
then additive reparation is needed. At the opposite the CBIST system
is designed to keep the structure in the elastic domaine and thus
Allows the immediate occupancy :
NO REPARATION NEEDED AFTER AN EARTHQUAKE
This main advantage defines well the high level
of performance

The energy produced

by the earthquake is
dissipated in the
dampers H ig h gra de steel ca ble

S pring ela stic

d am pe r