Design and Analysis of Base Valve of Twin Tube Dampers

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In this article we seek to model a base valve of a twin tube shock absorber and study the behaviour of the valve under loaded conditions replacing a mono tube shock absorber. A top down approach was adopted for this work wherein a commercially available shock absorber was stripped down to obtain the individual valves inside. Product teardown was done for the various subassemblies and the base valve was isolated. Modelling was done in PTC Creo 2.0 and the FEA study for the stress and flow analysis was done using ANSYS 15.0. The materials as well as the hydraulic fluid selected for the design were validated and proved to give a better performance than a mono tube shock absorber currently being used in automobiles.

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