Taylor Devices Shock Isolation Systems
Shock Isolation Systems: In 1963, Taylor Devices
made a long term commitment to the field of shock isolation and
load suspension. Notable "firsts" achieved include:
- 1963 - Liquid Spring suspension system on two Pontiac test vehicles
performed satisfactorily for 15,000 miles without maintenance.
- 1965 - A Chevrolet Corvair equipped with a Taylor Devices Liquid
Spring suspension, incorporating active controls, performed satisfactorily
for 40,000 road miles, without requiring any maintenance. This
car was tested at the General Motors proving ground in 1966 and
found to exhibit superior handling characteristics.
- 1967 - A fleet of intercity buses in New Castle, Pennsylvania
was equipped with Taylor Suspension Struts. The struts were still
in good working order when the buses were retired in 1970.
- 1970 - The world's largest truck, the 350 ton capacity V'Con
Mountain Mover, was put into service with a Taylor Liquid Spring
Suspension System. With 55 mph off-road speed capacity, the V'Con
was (and is) the fastest heavy mining truck ever produced. When
the prototype was retired after 5,000 hours of service, the suspension
had required no fluid or seal changes.
- 1972 - Taylor Devices Liquid Spring-Dampers were selected by
American Motors as the 5 mph bumper absorbers on the 1973 Hornet
and Matador Vehicles. This was the world's first production use
of compressible fluid devices on an automobile.
- 1980 - Taylor Devices was selected by the U.S. Air Force to
be the supplier of the Shock Isolation System on the MPS Based
MX Missile. The Taylor Devices Liquid Spring-Damper design used
on this program offered patented concepts which reduced the size
and weight of the entire missile launcher.
- 1986 - Taylor Devices was selected by the U.S. Air Force to
define and study Shock Isolation Systems for large land based
missiles to be deployed in the 1990's.
- 1991 - Large quantities of Taylor Devices Shock Isolators were
successfully used in Operation Desert Storm. Most notable was
the deadly accurate U.S. Navy Vertically Launched Tomahawk Cruise
Missile. Each Tomahawk Missile is protected by eight Liquid Spring
Isolators installed in its launch canister.
- 1992 - Experiments at the National Center for Earthquake Engineering
Research proved the superiority of Taylor Devices Fluid Viscous
Dampers in the attenuation of seismic shock on buildings and bridges.
Earthquake resistance improvements of 300% to 500% were found
possible, with the dampers reducing both stress and deflection
in both steel and reinforced concrete structures.
- 1993 - The County of San Bernardino, California selected Taylor
Viscous Damping Devices for seismic isolation of five buildings
of its new Medical Center at Colton, California. More than 180
dampers were required, each with 320,000 pounds output and a stroke
of 48 inches.
- 1994 - Taylor Devices provides the U.S. Army with an electronically
controlled active shock isolation system. The isolation system
is used for protection of critical guidance system components
on the THAADS Surface to Air Missile.
- 1995 - The Pacific Bell Northern Area Network Communications
Center in Sacramento, California is equipped with Taylor Devices'
fluid viscous dampers. The dampers are used as bracing elements
within the walls of this 300,000 square foot structure, and will
allow the structure to remain occupied and damage free after major
earthquakes.
- 1997 - The State of Washington selected Taylor Fluid Viscous
Dampers for seismic protection on the three-section roof of the
new Pacific Northwest Baseball Park in Seattle. The unique retractable
roof design required more than 6.5 million pounds of damping force,
provided by eight large Taylor dampers.
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