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Wheel Rate

Vertical spring rate of the suspension relative to the body, measured at the wheel center due to the motion of a pair of wheels.

Computed by:

SVCRAT

Input Variables Used:

Front and rear compliance matrices

Method:

SVC computes wheel rate as the inverse of the z-axis displacement at the wheel center due to the vertical forces applied at both wheel centers simultaneously.
Left = 1 / [C( 3,3 ) + C( 3,9 )]
Right = 1 / [C( 9,3 ) + C( 9,9 )]