Suspension bushes

[Benprotein]

Can anyone recommend a book or papers about the engineering of suspension bushes and mounts? Most of the automotive books I have devote a paragraph if anything.

 

[GregLocock]

Are you talking about designing the rubber so that it is durable and has a certain load deflection curve in 6 axes?

I have the original of this, it is good on basics

http://www.tarrc.co.uk/pages/EngDes...n with Rubber is,was first published in 1964.

However everything else I know is either proprietary or from experience.





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Greg Locock


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[Benprotein]

Hi Greg, many thanks.
What I'm looking for is the different designs for different applications and different markets, such as hydrobush, split bush, calibrated bush; what to expect and how to balance radial, axial, torsional static and dynamic stiffness and loss angle requirements for different applications; how to specify force displacement curves and how all these considerations impact durability, rolling plushness, impact feel, shake, steering precision and linearity.
Renny

 

[GregLocock]

That'd be a book!

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[Benprotein]

...or a few papers I guess. The question is, which book? I'll have a trawl through SAE

 

[GregLocock]

Sorry, I meant that would be an amazing book. About half a career.

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