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The torsional vibration of diesel engines has become severer with the increase of exciting force by higher pressure. Therefore, the running crankshaft is highly stressed owing to the large torsional vibration. Then, torsional viscous fluid dampers of high performance have been employed in high mean effective pressure diesel engines as a measure for vibration reduction. As the dynamic characteristics of the dampers have such a great influence on the vibration of the engine crankshaft system that they cannot be ignored, the viscosity of the silicone oil and the peripheral and lateral gaps of the dampers are diversely varied in the experiment. As the equipment for the measurement of torsional vibration displacement, a phase-shaft type torsiograph equipment was adopted so as to make it easy to measure simultaneously angular displacements of the casing and the inertia ring.