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Re: Frictional coefficant of wheels on the carpet
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Originally Posted by kE7JLM View Post
About 2 years back our team help with the AZ regional clean up, as a reward (and they had nowhere to store it) the officials gave us among a few other teams the carpet. We divided it up among the teams. To me it seems like regular commercial carpet, your school probably has it.

Are you going to account for the friction of the drive train or just free spinning wheels?
It is pretty much commercial carpet. I think the specs have shown up a few times.

Wheel coverings: Lots of teams use conveyor belting. Others use the standard wheels. Mostly rubber, though some use urethane. Metal is not allowed.

You may also want to check on plastics and metal. HDPE and Lexan have appeared as driving surfaces; diamond plate made its appearance in 2006. (And then there was 2007...)
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