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Fixed Body Machines Fixed Body Suspension Parameter Measurement Machines
The Axle Parameter Measurement Machine (APMM) is suitable for customers with limited budget and/or physical space. The APMM utilises many of the components of the SPMM, but employs the fixed body, moving road approach to Kinematics and Compliance testing.
ABD’s kinematics and compliance measurement machines measure the quasi-static suspension characteristics that are important to ride and handling. The machines measure the kinematic characteristics due to suspension and steering system geometries, and compliances due to suspension springs, anti-roll bars, elastomeric bushes and component deformations.
A large number of parameters may be evaluated, the principal ones being suspension rates and hysteresis, bump-steer, roll-steer, roll stiffness distribution, longitudinal and lateral compliance steer, and steering system characteristics. Knowledge of these parameter values and characteristics is an essential aid to the thorough understanding of a vehicles performance in terms of ride, steering and handling.
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