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The “Marsh Mellow” Spring
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This paper describes the operation and performance of a novel elastomeric nonlinear vehicle spring in passenger-car and light-truck applications. As a result of the variable rate characteristics of the suspension, an essentially constant ride frequency is attained with large variations in payload.
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Gieck, J., Rensel, J., and Weitzenhof, D., "The “Marsh Mellow” Spring," SAE Technical Paper 820161, 1982, https://doi.org/10.4271/820161.Also In
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