Steel Ball Filled Vibration-damping for industrial purpose
The steel ball filled damper is a high-reliability passive vibration damping component tailored for harsh industrial environments. Featuring a fully sealed rectangular steel tube shell and internal high-precision steel ball filling, it efficiently dissipates vibration energy via continuous friction, collision and inertial movement between steel balls and the tube wall. This all-steel structure eliminates aging and failure risks of rubber and viscous materials, delivering stable low-frequency vibration suppression, excellent resonance resistance and outstanding impact fatigue resistance. Boasting a long service life and maintenance-free operation, it supports customized sizes, materials, steel ball filling rates and installation methods. It is widely applied for vibration reduction and noise control of industrial equipment bases and various steel structure facilities.
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1. Product Overview
The steel ball filled damper is a new type of passive vibration and noise reduction device. It adopts a structural design of rectangular steel tube shell filled with high-density steel balls. Relying on the collision, friction, sliding and inertial energy dissipation of steel balls during vibration, impact and reciprocating displacement, it can quickly consume structural vibration energy and achieve efficient vibration reduction, suppression and elimination. Featuring sturdy structure, excellent fatigue resistance and maintenance-free performance, this product adapts to harsh industrial working conditions, serving as a highly reliable alternative to traditional rubber dampers, viscous dampers and spring dampers.
2. Core Structure & Working Principle
The product is a fully enclosed rectangular steel tube structure filled with high-precision and high-hardness steel balls inside. Stable damping performance is achieved through scientifically matched filling rates.
- Outer Shell: Made of industrial-grade rectangular steel tube with high rigidity, strong deformation resistance and superior impact resistance. Materials including Q235, Q355 and stainless steel are optional according to actual working conditions. The overall welded and sealed structure provides effective protection against dust, water and corrosion.
- Damping Medium: Filled with precision alloy steel balls or stainless steel balls with high hardness and excellent wear resistance without permanent deformation. Vibration energy is continuously dissipated through friction and collision between steel balls, as well as between steel balls and the tube wall.
- Working Principle: When equipment or structures generate vibration, the internal steel balls perform disorderly movement following the vibration. The mechanical vibration kinetic energy is converted into thermal energy via friction and consumed, which rapidly attenuates vibration amplitude, suppresses resonance and eliminates continuous jitter.
3. Core Product Advantages
- Industrial Durability & Ultra-long Service Life: Free of rubber, adhesive and other easily aging consumable parts. It adapts to extreme temperatures, oil pollution, dust, humid and other harsh environments, with stable performance without attenuation during long-term operation and realizes nearly maintenance-free use.
- Stable Vibration Reduction Performance: It delivers outstanding suppression effect on low-frequency vibration, continuous jitter and equipment resonance, and boasts stronger fatigue resistance and impact resistance compared with traditional dampers.
- Simple Structure & High Safety: The all-steel fully enclosed structure avoids liquid leakage and parts falling risks. It features high rigidity and strong bearing capacity without affecting the stability of the main structure.
- High Customizability: Custom services covering steel tube specifications, wall thickness, steel ball particle size, filling rate and installation methods are available to adapt to various industrial equipment and steel structure scenarios.
- Obvious Cost Advantage: With a simplified structure and convenient processing, the product requires zero maintenance cost in the later stage, resulting in a far lower comprehensive use cost than traditional damping products.
4. Industrial Application Scenarios
Widely applicable to various industrial equipment and steel structure projects requiring vibration reduction, vibration suppression, resonance prevention and noise reduction:
- Vibration reduction for the base of large industrial fans, water pumps, air compressors and vibrating equipment
- Jitter prevention for steel structure racks, equipment frames and assembly line supports
- Vibration resistance and buffering for engineering machinery, vehicle-mounted equipment and box structures
- Low-frequency vibration suppression for factory steel structures, trusses and supports
- All industrial scenarios requiring long-term stable vibration resistance and maintenance-free operation
5. Optional Custom Parameters
- Shell Material: Ordinary carbon steel tube, manganese steel, stainless steel
- Section Specification: Customizable length, width, wall thickness and overall length of rectangular tubes
- Steel Ball Material: Alloy steel ball, stainless steel ball
- Damping Configuration: Customizable steel ball particle size and filling rate according to working conditions
- Installation Method: Welded type, base fixed type, lifting lug type and more
Description of carbon steel ball
Material: AISI1010,1015,1020,1045,1085 available.
Sizes: 0.8mm to 3″(76.2mm)
Grades: Tolerances for carbon steel balls are ±0.0005 (grade 100) up to ±0.005 (grade 1000). G100,G200,G500,G1000 available.
Hardness: HRC58-62
Profile
Carbon steel balls Supply High hardness and excellent wear resistance,are an economical alternative to through-hardened precision balls. Carburized outer case, soft core, provides good load capacity, resistance to shock loads and surface wear. Non-heat treated carbon steel soft balls are also available applicated where the ball would need to be welded, modified, or drilled.
Hardness
Soft Carbon steel ball hardness at HRC10-30 deponds on the materials.Carbon steel balls are case-hardened to Rockwell C 60 minimum to provide strength and long life.
Applications:
Carbon steel balls are used in ball bearings to facilitate both linear and radial motion in applications from small equipment to industrial machinery.They provide reliable performance for less expensive anti-friction bearings, steering columns, casters, conveyors and trolleys, roller skates, toys and drawer slides,bicycles, roller skates, slides, trolleys and conveyors,Hinges,BB shot Carbon steel balls are also specified for vibratory finishing, stopper balls and aerosol cans, where ingredient mixing is required
Material composition:
| AISI NO. | C% | Si% | Mn% | P% | S% | Hardness |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AISI 1010 | 0.08~0.13 | 0.30Max | 0.50Max | 0.07Max | 0.06Max | Case Hardened |
| AISI 1015 | 0.13~0.18 | 0.10~0.30 | 0.30~0.60 | 0.04Max | Case Hardened | |
| AISI 1045 | 0.43~0.50 | 0.10~0.30 | 0.60~0.90 | 0.04Max | 0.05Max | Through Hardened |
| AISI 1085 | 0.80-0.94 | 0.10-0.30 | 0.70-1.00 | 0.04Max | 0.05Max | Through Hardened |
Carburized Layer Depth:
| Ball Diameter | Minimum Case Depth | Ball Diameter | Minimum Case Depth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.0-3.0mm | 0.5mm | 9.5-11.0mm | 1.4mm |
| 3.1-4.5mm | 0.6mm | 11.1-12.5mm | 1.7mm |
| 4.6-5.5mm | 0.8mm | 12.6-14.0mm | 1.8mm |
| 5.6-6.5mm | 0.9mm | 14.1-19.0mm | 1.9mm |
| 6.6-9.5mm | 1.1mm | 19.1-38.0mm | 2.0mm |
FAQ
We are professional steel ball manufacture with our own independent export right since 1997.
Carbon steel ball, stainless steel balls(ss304, ss316,ss420,ss430,ss440), chrome steel ball are the main products.Size range varies from
0.5mm to 120mm and includes metric and inch sizes, standard ones, oversize and under size
Steel ball are used wides in different industrial areas: bearing accesorries , caster wheels, telescopic parts,bicycles accesorries, toys and chemistry grinding,valves, pump,hardware, military… We are now the leading manufacturers of semi-precision steel balls grade ranage from G10 to Grade 2000 from China. And a regular supplier to some prominent companies all over the world.
Yes,we can customize for you as per steel ball samples or drawings.
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7-25days deponds on the order quantity.
