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Old 03-06-2015, 07:06 PM
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Originally Posted by maris
You mean we would input oil viscosity and piston hole data and you would give back those two graphs along with Damping Coefficient? That might be useful when changing different pistons/oil combinations. As RC shock is very simple and as study showed Force vs Velocity line is just straight line, it almost sounds like all that is needed is Damping Coefficient and that tells most of how shock behaves.
How the shock model is currently setup you enter all the shock dimensions and then you can change number and size of piston holes, piston clearance, oil viscosity, temperature and basically anything else. Right now the model is setup for bladder shocks. next I will work on the emulsion type.
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