Research Article

Effect of Parameters on the Design of a Suspension System with Four Oblique Springs

Figure 9

(a) Backbone curves (thick solid lines) for different values of γ, as labelled; locus of points C, i.e., relative minima, (thin solid line) and points D, i.e., relative maxima, (thin dash-dotted line). (b) Frequency corresponding to the relative minima (solid line) and maxima (dash-dotted line) as a function of  γ. (c) Displacement amplitude corresponding to the relative minima (solid line) and maxima (dash-dotted line) as a function of γ. The vertical dashed line in (b) and (c) denotes the asymptotic trend for , and the circle denotes the limit for .
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