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Re: Newbie needs Help (diff sensor)
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 7 Jun 2006 18:18:47 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, steve <sjbaker1@airmail.net> wrote:
> Mr S wrote:
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> > On a side note, your work on testing the motorcycle tires for
> > traction is of interest to me, and I never got around to asking,
> > but on a side note here, when you tested this tire
> > <http://philohome.com/traction/2903.jpg> do you think that the
> > performace would be improved if the tire were filled with a kind
> > of PFE tubing (so as to make it a run flat kind of tire) so that it
> > did not suffer from excessive compression of the rubber tire?
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> I would have expected that compression would be a good thing because
> it would increase the area of the 'contact patch' - which increases
> traction - which is a good thing - right?
Not so obvious. If you increase the surface the pressure per surface unit
decreases proportionnaly (at least on hard surface)... Actually I would expect
little or no variation in traction power.
Philo
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| | Re: Newbie needs Help (diff sensor)
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| (...) I would have expected that compression would be a good thing because it would increase the area of the 'contact patch' - which increases traction - which is a good thing - right? (18 years ago, 7-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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