Background: A couple of my friends in the automotive industry want to design a car in our free time. The main drive behind this is to learn and get our brains working again. Most of us are in development or evaluation type jobs where the real hardcore engineering is not used on a regular...
Boulevard Jerk: 2-6Hz occilation of the vehicle on the tire stiffness while the suspension is basically locked.
I hope none of you ever have the task of fixing Boulevard Jerk by means that are truely insane! One of our platforms has a very bad boulevard jerk issue in the rear suspension. I...
I found this presentation when doing some research on torque steer in high power, FF vehicles.
http://www.ukintpress.com/vehicledynamicsexpo/images/vdipdfs/Frantzen.PDF
The solution presented by Ford and ZF seems to be very interesting. It allows for a more verticle King pin axis, as well as...
Review time is upon us at my company, and I am asking for a bit of help here. Whenever I bring up salary in my review, HR always pulls out some "special" survey of automotive companies and says I'm on track with the industry average. I really don't believe it! Just by doing some...
Can someone post, or point me in the direction of a "proper" roll steer plot. What I am looking for is an example of ideal conditions for a REAR multilink (or other similar) suspension design. The project I am currently working on has some issues with roll oversteer and I what some...
