Dynamic testing of shock absorbers under non-sinusoidal conditions

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering

Volumn 216, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 373-384

  Kowalski, D ^a   Rao, M D ^a   Blough, J ^a   Gruenberg, S ^a  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Damping; Dynamic properties; Shock absorbers; Sine on sine excitation; Struts

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DAMPING; DYNAMICS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; MECHANICAL TESTING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STIFFNESS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CHASSIS MODEL; DYNAMIC TESTING; SINE-ON-SINE TESTING;

AUTOMOBILE SHOCK ABSORBERS;

EID: 0036960447     PISSN: 09544070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/0954407021529183     Document Type: Article

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