The phrase "as damper" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe something that serves to reduce or suppress, but without additional context, it is unclear how to use it appropriately.
Example: "The unexpected rain served as a damper on our outdoor plans."
Alternatives: "as a hindrance" or "as a setback".
Optimum parameters for oil dampers, such as damper damping coefficient and damper direction, are sought within a range of practical interest.
Shear viscosity and effective shear modulus, quantities related to the complex viscosity, have been measured as functions of frequency for five polydimethylsiloxanes commonly used as damper fluids.
Hence, to achieve the optimum compromise between reduction in various displacement and acceleration responses as well as damper capacity, the suitable value of stiffness ratio, k r, is considered as 0.5 for the present study.
It is observed from the figures that energy dissipation performance of the damper is different for different damper arrangement, even for same earthquake ground motion, leads to conclude that characteristic of earthquake ground motion as well as damper arrangement influences the structural behavior and its improvement.
Yorkshire may need an early-season flyer while the air is damp, only not as damp as yesterday, with play limited to 43 overs.
No matter how much sea water Verbinski throws at the set, nothing gets as damp as Mr Bland, whose expressions run the gamut from perky to peeved with occasional interludes of petulance.
Finally, of course, there is romance between Sabine and André, who has a moment of Mr Darcy-style romantic immersion, but really this is as damp as everything else.
But he adds that even if the mesosphere is damp, it's not nearly as damp as Frank's theory would have it.
The conventional wisdom (which in this case happens to be right) is that your compost pile ought to be as damp as a well-squeezed sponge.
Forty-six when the movie opened, he isn't as boyish as he is in "American Graffiti," as cocksure as he is in "Star Wars" or as damp as he is in "Blade Runner".
Your pile should be about as damp as a sponge that has been wrung out.
