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I've been thinking about this for a long time. I would like to be able to quantitatively evaluate chassis stiffness. I have some ideas for increasing stiffness, but I'd like to be able to measure those changes by something other than the seat of my pants ("It feels stiffer.").
My best idea so far is to place a car on three jack stands of equal height and measure the droop of the fourth corner. Any other ideas? Any physicists that can help out here? |
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Contact a few engineering consulting firms and ask them. Car manufacturers measure chassis stiffness by the frequency that the chassis naturally vibrates at. I have no idea how it's done or if it's easy to do.
I think I saw these guys do suspension engineering and chassis stiffening on old Mopars on Dream Car Garage http://www.multimatic.com/engineering/index.shtml This post has been edited by Mid_Engine_914: Jan 26 2007, 08:37 PM |
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