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25 Apr 2007, 20:10 (Ref:1900412)
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Push-rod suspensions
Does anyone know any good books on Push-rod suspensions? or double A-arm suspensions?
The thing is that I'm working for a sportscar team and I'm in charge of designing and developing the car for 2010. Up to know I've been working on chassis stiffness and in a few months will be looking into the suspension layout. I already have quite a few books on chassis design, car aerodynamics, vehicle dynamics...but I feel that I don't have enough info to correctly design the suspension. |
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25 Apr 2007, 21:37 (Ref:1900476)
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this makes it difficult to come down to "what I need myself". The A-arm geometry is dependent on so many factors like aero, cgh, type of racing etc, so a general rule is impossible to give. It is also important to understand that everything must be fabricated if designing things from a clean sheet of paper. However, I may be able to answer a few specific questions and mail you some images from my book. Goran Malmberg |
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25 Apr 2007, 21:49 (Ref:1900485)
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If you have a thorough theory knowledge, then you should definately be in need of a 3d suspension design software package, like that by Lotus for example.
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2 May 2007, 12:48 (Ref:1904958)
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Thank you for the reply...well I'm going to use basic mathematical geometry for the moment to understand the way push-rod suspensions work...and creating a excel file with the equations! Paralel to this I will be using a 3D suspension geometry design/analysis to study our current cars suspension....and also to validate my calculations with excel.
I will only start the new car design later on this year! at the moment I'm designing our current car with 3D software to run a FEA analysis to get a baseline value for the chassis stiffness. |
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16 May 2007, 18:58 (Ref:1914885)
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From the pics I have seen, it looks like the dampers are a special design, if this is true then the damper mfg could provide much useful info.
Good luck. |
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