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Friday, December 7, 2007

8/72

for problem 8/72, shouldn't there be damping in the real system? isn't that how shock absorbers work in real life?

1 comment:

CMK said...

It would be appropriate to include some damping the in the trailer suspension model.

In this case we are looking for the critical speed (resonance speed). As it turns out, the resonance speed with damping differs little from the undamped critical speed. In addition, undamped forced analysis is a little simpler than damped forced analysis. Therefore little is gained with more effort in including damping here.