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An Experimentally Validated Physical Model of a High-Performance Mono-Tube Damper
Technical Paper
2002-01-3337
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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A mathematical model of a gas-charged mono-tube racing damper is presented. The model includes bleed orifice, piston leakage, and shim stack flows. It also includes models of the floating piston and the stiffness characteristics of the shim stacks. The model is validated with experimental tests on an Ohlins WCJ 22/6 damper and shown to be accurate. The model is exercised to show the effects of tuning on damper performance. The important results of the exercise are 1) the pressure variation on the compression side of the piston is insignificant relative to that on the rebound side because of the gas charge, 2) valve shim stiffness can be successfully modeled using stacked thin circular plates, 3) bleed orifice settings dominate the low speed regime, and 4) shim stack stiffness dominates the high speed regime.
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Talbott, M. and Starkey, J., "An Experimentally Validated Physical Model of a High-Performance Mono-Tube Damper," SAE Technical Paper 2002-01-3337, 2002, https://doi.org/10.4271/2002-01-3337.Also In
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