Mad Flt Scientist
Are you specifying 10 fps as an ultimate design number or with safety factor included.?
In my day at Boscombe Down I seem to recall 7 feet per second and beyond as a heavy landing requiring inspection. For Naval aircraft landing without a flare it was considerably more. Cannot recall the criteria for considering side loads.
Presumably the specifications for tyre designs line up with or are more stringent than for the gears and there are different numbers for nose gears.
There will be precious few pilot who can judge how close they come to, or exceed, the safe sink rate and some gears are much kinder than others having built in articulated damping. Ground effect helps a bit. I'd be surprised if the modern simulators provide an accurate feel of a landing at the limit. Any comments?