The invention discloses a single-
piston-rod 
damper and belongs to the technical field of 
structural vibration control devices. The single-
piston-rod 
damper comprises a cylinder which is divided into a working chamber and a compensation chamber, the working chamber and the compensation chamber are separated from each other through a floating 
piston which is sealed together with the cylinder, and the working chamber is filled with shear thickening fluid (STF); one end, with the tip being connected with a working piston, of the 
piston rod is arranged in the working chamber in the cylinder, and the other end of the 
piston rod is arranged outside the cylinder and connected with an upper connecting part; and an elastic part is arranged in the compensation chamber, one end of the elastic part is connected with the floating piston, and the other end of the elastic part is connected to a rubber piston arranged at the end of the cylinder. When the shearing rate is high and the instantaneous 
vibration velocity in the working chamber is high, shear thickening of the STF occurs to generate damping force, so that the anti-
impact vibration-reduction effect of 
engineering structures is achieved; and when the shearing rate is low and the instantaneous 
vibration velocity in the working chamber is low, the elastic part in the compensation chamber elastically compensates for the initial rigidity of the 
damper, so that vibration reduction and energy dissipation of the 
engineering structures are achieved. The single-piston-rod damper is provided with the elastic compensation chamber to provide appropriate compensation rigidity, and the anti-
impact vibration-reduction effect of the damper is achieved.