Post by endeavor on Jun 17, 2016 10:02:44 GMT -5
To clarify my comment on "tire bounce" Tire inflation rate is simply the amount of pressure required to form a proper footprint. Most tires I use are rated for a max load of 1350 lbs and a recommended pressure max of 35 psi. Now decrease the load and you must decrease the pressure or the footprint will become to small and the tire will tend to bounce. Think of a basketball - inflated hard as a rock, it will absorb little energy rather transfer this back into movement and the ball will bounce back almost as highly as initiated. Lower the pressure and the ball collapses and absorbs so much energy that it hardly rebounds.
Also in suspension dynamics the primary suspension component is not springs rather the tire itself. Whatever the tire can not handle is transferred to the spring and it's action controlled by the shocks.
The #1 purpose of suspension is to simply keep the wheel on the ground. Too stiff a spring and the wheel will skip over bumps, too soft and the suspension will top out. Improperly inflated tires will place greater demands on this control and will transfer an excess of shock stress to the secondary suspension system.
And that's all I got to say about that.
Also in suspension dynamics the primary suspension component is not springs rather the tire itself. Whatever the tire can not handle is transferred to the spring and it's action controlled by the shocks.
The #1 purpose of suspension is to simply keep the wheel on the ground. Too stiff a spring and the wheel will skip over bumps, too soft and the suspension will top out. Improperly inflated tires will place greater demands on this control and will transfer an excess of shock stress to the secondary suspension system.
And that's all I got to say about that.
