Bearing support structure combining fluid damping and spring damping apparatus

In a bearing support structure of the fluid damping type, the improvement comprising:

• an inner housing which is adapted to receive a bearing to be supported;
• a plurality of arcuate segments extending circumferentially in abutting end to end relationship about said inner housing, wherein each end of each segment has an outwardly extending pedestal and wherein each of said segments has an inwardly extending pedestal spacing said segment apart from the inner housing;
• an outer housing which has an inwardly facing surface abutting the outwardly extending pedestals of each arcuate segment to form a chamber for fluid damping medium between the pedestals, and which has at least one inlet conduit for supplying fluid damping medium to the chambers and at least one outlet conduit at each chamber for allowing the discharge of fluid damping medium from that chamber, wherein the sum of the cross sectional areas of the outlet conduits is less than the total inlet conduit, cross sectional area;
• and a pair of axially spaced end seals extending between said outer housing and said arcuate segments to inhibit the leakage of damping medium axially from the chambers.