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Originally Posted by Bongle
And they found that even on a slippery surface like HPDE, surface area makes a (very slight) difference. On a surface like a carpet where interlocking between wheel rubber and the surface will be more likely, I'll bet that relationship is greater.
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It's not, according to Baker and 45. It's about the same. And the gains there are lost elsewhere (same source).
You're right, designing to ideal situations is not the best way to go. It can provide a pretty good approximation, however. If it didn't, we wouldn't use ideal cases at all, now would we? It'll give you an idea of what will happen, so you can definitely reject ideas. If you have a bunch of ideas that should work, you can mock them up and see if there's something you missed in the "ideal case" that should have been there.
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