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Suspension Damping System Help Needed!

Suspension Damping System Help Needed!

Suspension Damping System Help Needed!

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Hi All,

First off, is this the right place to post on an Oil Damping System for part of a suspension shock?

Anyway, I've created a concept design for a shock unit for a professional racing mountain bike and I have created basic, rough virtual prototypes in AD Inventor.

My problem is I need to be able to find out what diameters for hydraulic lines within the shock need to be, the volume needed in the main piston, and I need to be able to test certain small valves, (most are needle valves and pressure relief), against different oil pressures so that I may acheive an accurate damping rate for the shock. I have Inventor 11 and have access to ANSYS MultiPhysics. ANSYS seems like too much for what I want to do, I was hoping their was a more simple software package out their which would be good for what I need to do.

Has anyone got an suggestions as to what I should do or use?

If all fails, I take it that it is possible to test valves and test oil flow in certain diameters in hydraulic piping in ANSYS?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers! Mike.

RE: Suspension Damping System Help Needed!

Try the Acoustics/Vibration forum.  Those lads will have a solved set of DE's on your desk faster than you can poke oil through an orifice.

I'd be inclined to start your iterations at a nominal set of measurements kindly provided by reverse engineering one of the many excellent products currently on the market.

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