An Investigation of the Influence of High Performance Dampers on the Suspension Performance of a Quarter Vehicle

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Warner, Brian, author.

Conference Name:

Motorsports Engineering Conference & Exposition (1996-12-10 : Dearborn, Michigan, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 1996

Summary:

An investigation is carried out to determine the influence of dampers on the performance of race cars. The analysis is carried out in four sequential phases: (i) development of analytical damper model, incorporating gas spring, friction, asymmetric multi-stage damping, fluid compressibility and temperature sensitivity; (ii) development of quarter vehicle model, and determination of performance criteria and coefficients; (iii) validation and analysis of results for candidate damper on quarter car simulator; (vi) parametric analysis of damper parameters relative to performance criteria. It is concluded that the performance is sensitive to temperature changes, particularly the gas spring effect, and that asymmetric multi-stage damping provides nonlinear tuning capability of the system

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Publisher Number:

962552

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