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That reminds me of the missing mechanical equivalent of the capacitor, the inerter, which McLaren secretly began using on their formula one cars in 2005. But d
by swimfar 12y ago
That reminds me of the missing mechanical equivalent of the capacitor, the inerter, which McLaren secretly began using on their formula one cars in 2005. But does this mean there's potentially another missing suspension component?
http://personal.strath.ac.uk/yixiang.xu/talk_HUST_2008_Chen.pdf http://personal.strath.ac.uk/yixiang.xu/talk_HUST_2008_Chen....
edit: Assuming a Force-Current, Velocity-Voltage equivalence, I get the mechanical memristor behavior to be: dx=M.F.dt, with M being a property of the memristor(memdamper?). Or in other words, v=M.F; velocity is proportional to the force. (The dots are multiplication. Asterisks italicize the text)
- jacquesm 12y agov = M.F => that's regular inertia isn't it? In the case of the inerter presumably constrained by the stroke of the device. It's like a 'two stroke flywheel' in a nice package.
- jessaustin 12y agoAs explained at http://www-control.eng.cam.ac.uk/~mcs/lecture_j.pdf http://www-control.eng.cam.ac.uk/~mcs/lecture_j.pdf, mass with respect to the inertial frame is equivalent to a grounded capacitor. However, the single "pole" limited the sorts of mechanical systems that could be designed. The inerter allows a system to be optimized with respect to the difference between accelerations, not simply an absolute acceleration. I think that two accelerations could also be related with levers, but the quantities involved might make that not so feasible as a suspension component.