The use of rubber for traction bar springs and an indication of how to calculate the stiffness of such springs (IM-DA-020)

H.S.F.V. 10. during its career to date has used rubber traction bar springs made from a compounded arrangement of compression blocks (rubber sandwiched between parallel steel plates); and these have been used in the secondary yaw suspension between sub-frame and under frame (body). At the present time a further modification...