Re: Coefficient of Friction on Carpet?
 

does anyone know which legal material would be the best for the carpet? any ideas are greatly appreciated. thanks.

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What's your goal? Traction, sliding, combination, pushing, the list goes on.

And if you know what your goal is right now, I think you should step back and think about your design again.

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Velcro ;)

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Banned from this use under <R08>.

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I should probably get to reading on the details of the playing field this year. Is the floor surface carpet?

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Yup, it's carpet. Also, AndyMark publishes coefficients of friction for most of their wheels on carpet on their site. Any other materials you come up with you can measure the CoF yourself.

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Roughtop or Wedgetop tread are going to be the two "best" (Highest CoF) tread materials you will commonly find.

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Completely agree, with the addition of red nitrile belting. Simple wheels may make climbing less than reliable. However, FRC teams have an astounding ability to prove forum predictions wrong.

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Warning to rookie teams as well as second year teams (which the original poster may be based upon the team number, since last year the wheels and friction were not a variable).

High friction can cause significant steering issues in a simple 4 wheel skid steer drive train. This was covered quickly during the kick-off, but with all that was covered, just a reminder.