Aircraft brake vibration damper

In an aircraft brake having rotatable discs connected with a wheel and stationary discs connected with a torque tube, the stationary discs having at an inner diameter thereof a plurality of circumferentially spaced-apart complementary shaped axial openings which receive respectively axially extending splines of the torque tube, the axially extending splines each having a pair of substantially radially extending circumferentially spaced-apart walls extending along the axial length of the spline and connected by a circumferentially extending radially outer surface of the spline, a vibration dampening mesh material located adjacent each of the spaced-apart walls, and metal covers each extending axially and disposed over a respective spline so that the mesh material is located between the respective spline and metal cover which is located within the respective complementary shaped axial openings of the stationary discs, each said metal cover comprising a jacket disposed over a respective spline with circumferential sides extending circumferentially away from the respective spaced-apart walls of the spline and the circumferential sides each engaging an adjacent circumferential side, so that during operation of said brake the mesh material effects a dampening of vibrations generated during braking operation.

In an aircraft brake having rotatable discs connected with a wheel and stationary discs connected with a torque tube, the stationary discs having at an inner diameter thereof a plurality of circumferentially spaced-apart complementary shaped axial openings which receive respectively axially extending splines of the torque tube, the axially extending splines each having a pair of substantially radially extending circumferentially spaced-apart walls extending along the axial length of the spline and connected by a circumferentially extending radially outer surface of the spline, a vibration dampening mesh material located adjacent each of the spaced-apart walls, and metal covers each extending axially and disposed over a respective spline so that the mesh material is located between the respective spline and metal cover which is located within the respective complementary shaped axial openings of the stationary discs, the mesh material able to transmit braking torque loads from the metal covers to the splines, so that during operation of said brake the mesh material effects a dampening of vibrations generated during braking operation.