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    Posted: Aug/25/2019 at 8:58am
Hello

I am working on the longitudnal vehicle dynamics for our vehicle, to select a gear ratio.
So far I wasn't consider any rotating mass, and assumed a vehicle mass of 225 kg (including the driver).
Then I came across this concept of "Equivalent Rotating Mass" where in, basically, we take into account the rotational effects of rotating mass (as it'd require a higher torque to give that mass an angular acceleration and linear acceleration; more on that here : http://www.thecartech.com/subjects/auto_eng/car_performance_formulas.htm ).

When I calculated the equivalent mass for our vehicle it rose up straight by 115 kg!! (therefore, total car weight 340 kg).

Basically this has flipped over all of my calculations.
I was aiming for a speed of 60 kmph and now, at the ratio for dynamic balance at 30° incline, my vehicle can't pass 40 kmph.

What the hell happened? How credible is this?
And do other teams even actually take this into account? Because I haven't found a single mention of 'this problem' (massive mass increase) on the forum anywhere.

And on the thread by Akron (http://forums.bajasae.net/forum/absolute-top-speed-of-competition-ready-car_topic1037.html) , people have taken the mass of their vehicle as ≈200 kgs. I don't see any way that could be the case with ROTATIONAL inertia included.

Please help me out.

Edited by Syndrome - Aug/25/2019 at 9:01am
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote buckinghams_pie Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: Aug/26/2019 at 11:01am
Your vehicle mass seems reasonable, your 60kph top speed seems slightly high but not unreasonable, maybe your rotational mass is too high
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I am not an expert on the subject, but if I look at the equation used to calculate the equivalent mass of  rotating parts, I see they have used certain values. I hope that when you made the calculation for your car, you changed those values based on your components (polar moment of inertias, efficiencies etc.). 

Is that what you did?  
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@sujandinesh
Yes, all the values are based on our components.
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