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Old 05-02-2013, 09:07 AM   #75
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Originally Posted by EarlQHan View Post
Since tire damping is so low and so so very hard to quantify, you can use this simplified model for the transfer function:



NOTE: Should say MASS not WEIGHT
This is basically what I did for my capstone. However it was damping a chassis (no suspension, only chassis and tires for the spring). I used Matlab for the transfer functions, and I used the root locus method to design the desired damping ratio and frequency of the system.
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