Dampening

"aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe" (emaxxbl) 10/01/2016 at 20:20 • Filed to: None

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they got it.

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Birddog > aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe 10/01/2016 at 20:24

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WTactualF?? Is McMike behind that?

daender > aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe 10/01/2016 at 20:26

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And here I thought Ford’s horrible quad-binding system couldn’t be outdone.

jimz > aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe 10/01/2016 at 20:35

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Enginerd time.

it’s damping. “Dampening” means to make something wet. “Damping” means prevent oscillation in a resonant system.

jimz > Birddog 10/01/2016 at 20:43

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possibly not. that could be from something like a monster truck. See, the very name “shock absorbers” or “shocks” is misleading. Shocks are actually dashpots, or dampers. The job of a dashpot is to provide a resistance to movement, and resist harder the faster whatever it’s attached to tries to move. Your car’s suspension is a spring-mass system, and it has a resonance. the job of the shock absorber is to “damp” that resonance so if you hit a bump, the axle will go up to follow the bump (jounce,) go back down to meet the road surface (rebound,) and stop moving. if the suspension is under-damped, when the car/truck goes over the bump, it’ll come down and the vehicle will continue to bob up and down as it drives down the road.

a truck like the one pictured with huge wheels and tires has so much unsprung mass that it needs a lot of shocks to damp the potential oscillations of the axle.

aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe > jimz 10/01/2016 at 20:48

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Birddog > jimz 10/01/2016 at 20:51

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random001 > jimz 10/01/2016 at 20:54

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I resisted posting this, and you went and did it...

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > jimz 10/01/2016 at 22:21

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Damping is preferred and in more common usage. Dampening is an alternative and correct term.