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Modern Mechanical Engineering, 2011, 1, 84-92 doi:10.4236/mme.2011.12011 Published Online November 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/mme) Design, Development and Testing of an Air Damper to Control the Resonant Response of a SDOF Quarter-Car Suspension System Ranjit G. Todkar Department of Mechanical Engineering , P.V.P. Institute of Technology, Sangli, India E-mail : rgtodkar@ Received October 21, 2011; revised November 3, 2011; accepted November 10, 2011 Abstract An air damper possesses the advantages that there are no long term changes in the damping properties, there is no dependence on working temperature and additionally, it has less manufacturing and maintenance costs. As such, an air damper has been designed and developed based on the Maxwell type model concept in the approach of Nishihara and Asami and Nishihara [1]. The cylinder-piston and air-tank type damper character- istics such as air damping ratio and air spring rate have been studied by changing the length and diameter of the capillary pipe between the air cylinder and the air tank, operating air pressure and the air tank volume. A SDOF quarter-car vehicle suspension system using the developed air enclosed cylinder-piston and air-tank type damper has been analyzed for its motion transmissibility characteristics. Optimal values of the air damping ratio at various values of air spring rate have been determined for minimum motion transmissibility of the sprung mass. An experimental setup has been developed for SDOF quarter-car suspension system model using the developed air enclosed cylinder-piston and air-tank type damper to determine the motion transmissibility characteristics of the sprung mass. An attendant air