Thread: Dampers
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Old 30 Dec 2005, 22:41 (Ref:1492217)   #1
silente
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Dampers

Hi all!

I need your opinion about a damper problem.

I am trying to use the damping ratios to know something about the dampers to use on a car. I'd like to have a idea of which kind of curve the dampers should have before to go on the track; what i want to obtain is a damper curve that needs only to be adjusted on the track after the first test days.

My questions are:

1) the tipical curve of force/speed of a damper shows a decreasing value of the ratio "c=force/speed" as the speed grows up. In which zone i have to analyze the damping ratio (damping ratio = c/cr where cr is the critical damping)?

2) which values the damping ratio should have?


thx in advance for the replies!
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