I assume the quadrants being referred to are those on a damper f vs. v diagram? I'm not following the energy input and energy dissipated reference: I thought the area contained in the trace is work done or energy dissipated by the damper....
Thanks for the info everyone...Gt6racer2 I'm curious about your definition of an active system in particular. I'll have to think about that further to understand fully, but thank you for posting that.
It seems the heart of the whole thing is the control laws that are used; I know the Lotus...
I've become really interested in fully active suspension systems lately; it seems like a good corollary to learning about conventional passive suspension. Now, I don't have a background in control systems or anything like that, so my current understanding is almost nil. One concept I keep...
RigTest, that was a huge help.
So in a rough summary of sorts;
The tire forces are a function of the loads supported by that corner of the car at any given instant. The force causes the tire carcass to distort, resulting in a slip angle. The slip angle at the tires gives rise to a body...
Interesting stuff. To be honest, I'm one of those who would have thought that tires on an axle would have somewhat different slip angles while cornering due to LLT. The fact that, at the limit the tire no longer 'listens' to slip or steer is not surprising I suppose. The fact that it does...
GSpeedR,
I owe you a huge apology, I clearly failed to put your post into proper context. Hope you can forgive that, 'cuz your posts are always great, and written in a way that makes the topic easy to understand (which shows you really know what you're talking about). I take full responsibility.
Ahhhh I think I got it. Really simple: I'm visualizing the longitudinal component of the left and right front wheels negotiating a right-hand turn and their relation to the CG. I can see now where the outside wheel long. component would have an anti-clockwise moment about the CG, while the...
The post I read is this:
"The yaw moment contribution from steer can be quite significant in situations where the turn radius is of a similar order to the vehicle track-width and wheelbase (think autocross car). There are two distinct geometric effects (ignore the tire data for a moment):
1.)...
Hello all, I need help with front/rear and inside/outside tire forces about the CG in a steady state turn.
If anyone can refer me to a plan-view drawing, that would be great. I(think I) know that the front wheels provide a destabilizing moment about the CG, while the rear tires give a...
Hello all, please pardon the very basic nature of this post.
I'm looking for a good resource for reading the different types of damper dyno graphs (and it seems the number of these graphs is increasing in type).
I've been told that the standard force vs. velocity chart is fairly useless, as it...
