The document provides an overview of the suspension design process, including selecting vehicle targets, choosing a system architecture, locating hard points, analyzing loads, and designing individual components. Key aspects discussed are vehicle level targets, types of front and rear suspension architectures, the role of instant centers and axes in controlling suspension kinematics, methods for analyzing load distribution, and factors considered in the design of independent front and rear beam-type suspensions.
Analysis of the stability and step steer maneuver of a linearized vehicle mod...saeid ghaffari
Analysis of the lateral dynamics of the vehicle (stability and step steer manoeuvre) of a Linearized vehicle model with roll motion is done in this project. considering a high double wishbone suspension for front and a semi-trailing arm suspension for rear, firstly we derive the roll camber coefficient and camber stiffness benefiting from a multibody dynamics simulation (MSC ADAMS) validated with experimental values. On the other hand, cornering stiffness and aligning moment are computed through the tire diagrams using Carsim software. Root loci of the system with the objective of investigating the vehicle stability as a function of the vehicle speed is plotted with varying the speed V. Furthermore, a step steer manoeuvre will be performed in which the time history of the variables and the trajectory with respect to the rigid vehicle model will be compared. In the last part, the effect of suspension stiffness and damping variation on the vehicle stability will be examined.
*Only the first ten pages of the project is presented here; if you are interested to study the rest of this document, please do not hesitate to contact e via saeid.ghaffari@studenti.polito.it.
A 4-wheel steering system allows you to turn all the four wheels with the steering wheel. The driver experiences a quicker steering response. You easily move your vehicle with a smaller turning radius. You get better stability and greater safety. Go through the following slideshow to get the main advantages of a 4-wheel steering system.
This is Part 3 of a 10 Part Series in Automotive Dynamics and Design, with an emphasis on Mass Properties. This series was intended to constitute the basis of a semester long course on the subject.
Propeller shaft is a circular shaft which is used to transmit the power or rotational motion from the gear box to the final drive.
The propeller shaft as the name suggest “ propels the vehicle.
UNIT IV STEERING, BRAKES AND SUSPENSION SYSTEMS karthi keyan
Steering geometry and types of steering gear box-Power Steering, Types of Front Axle, Types of Suspension Systems, Pneumatic and Hydraulic Braking Systems, Antilock Braking System (ABS), electronic brake force distribution (EBD) and Traction Control.
To provide good ride and handling performance –
–vertical compliance providing chassis isolation
–ensuring that the wheels follow the road profile
–very little tire load fluctuation
•To ensure that steering control is maintained during maneuvering –
–wheels to be maintained in the proper position wrt road surface
•To ensure that the vehicle responds favorably to control forces produced by the tires during
–longitudinal braking
–accelerating forces,
–lateral cornering forces and
–braking and accelerating torques
–this requires the suspension geometry to be designed to resist squat, dive and roll of the vehicle body
•To provide isolation from high frequency vibration from tire excitation
–requires appropriate isolation in the suspension joints
–Prevent transmission of ‘road noise’ to the vehicle body
Analysis of the stability and step steer maneuver of a linearized vehicle mod...saeid ghaffari
Analysis of the lateral dynamics of the vehicle (stability and step steer manoeuvre) of a Linearized vehicle model with roll motion is done in this project. considering a high double wishbone suspension for front and a semi-trailing arm suspension for rear, firstly we derive the roll camber coefficient and camber stiffness benefiting from a multibody dynamics simulation (MSC ADAMS) validated with experimental values. On the other hand, cornering stiffness and aligning moment are computed through the tire diagrams using Carsim software. Root loci of the system with the objective of investigating the vehicle stability as a function of the vehicle speed is plotted with varying the speed V. Furthermore, a step steer manoeuvre will be performed in which the time history of the variables and the trajectory with respect to the rigid vehicle model will be compared. In the last part, the effect of suspension stiffness and damping variation on the vehicle stability will be examined.
*Only the first ten pages of the project is presented here; if you are interested to study the rest of this document, please do not hesitate to contact e via saeid.ghaffari@studenti.polito.it.
A 4-wheel steering system allows you to turn all the four wheels with the steering wheel. The driver experiences a quicker steering response. You easily move your vehicle with a smaller turning radius. You get better stability and greater safety. Go through the following slideshow to get the main advantages of a 4-wheel steering system.
This is Part 3 of a 10 Part Series in Automotive Dynamics and Design, with an emphasis on Mass Properties. This series was intended to constitute the basis of a semester long course on the subject.
Propeller shaft is a circular shaft which is used to transmit the power or rotational motion from the gear box to the final drive.
The propeller shaft as the name suggest “ propels the vehicle.
UNIT IV STEERING, BRAKES AND SUSPENSION SYSTEMS karthi keyan
Steering geometry and types of steering gear box-Power Steering, Types of Front Axle, Types of Suspension Systems, Pneumatic and Hydraulic Braking Systems, Antilock Braking System (ABS), electronic brake force distribution (EBD) and Traction Control.
To provide good ride and handling performance –
–vertical compliance providing chassis isolation
–ensuring that the wheels follow the road profile
–very little tire load fluctuation
•To ensure that steering control is maintained during maneuvering –
–wheels to be maintained in the proper position wrt road surface
•To ensure that the vehicle responds favorably to control forces produced by the tires during
–longitudinal braking
–accelerating forces,
–lateral cornering forces and
–braking and accelerating torques
–this requires the suspension geometry to be designed to resist squat, dive and roll of the vehicle body
•To provide isolation from high frequency vibration from tire excitation
–requires appropriate isolation in the suspension joints
–Prevent transmission of ‘road noise’ to the vehicle body
UNIT-IV-STEERING, BRAKES AND SUSPENSION SYSTEMS.pptxDineshKumar4165
Steering geometry and types of steering gear box-Power Steering- Pneumatic and Hydraulic Braking Systems - Antilock Braking System (ABS)- Electronic brake force distribution (EBD) and Traction Control - Types of Front Axle- types of Suspension systems
UNIT-IV-STEERING, BRAKES AND SUSPENSION SYSTEMS.pptxprakash0712
Steering geometry and types of steering gear box – power steering – pneumatic and hydraulic braking system – Antilock Braking System (ABS) – Electronic Brake force Distribution (EBD) and traction control – types of front axle – types of suspension system.
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2. Suspension Design Process
• Selecting appropriate vehicle level targets
• Selecting a systemarchitecture
• Choosing the location of the 'hard points', or theoretical centres of
each ball joint or bushing
• Selecting the rates of the bushings-compliance
• Analysing the loads in the suspension
• Designing the spring rates
• Designing shock absorber characteristics
• Designing the structureof each component so that it is strong, stiff,
light, and cheap
• Analysing the vehicle dynamics of the resulting design
3. Vehicle Level Targets
• Maximum steady state lateral acceleration (in understeer mode)
• Roll stiffness (degrees per g of lateral acceleration)
• Ride frequencies
• Lateral load transfer percentage distribution front to rear
• Roll moment distribution front to rear
• Ride heights at various states of load
• Understeer gradient
• Turning circle
• Ackermann
• Jounce travel
• Rebound travel
4. System Architecture
• For the front suspension the following need to be considered
• The type of suspension (Macpherson strut or double wishbone
suspension)
• Type of steering actuator (rack and pinion or recirculatingball)
• Location of the steering actuator in front of, or behind, the wheel
centre
• For the rear suspension there are many more possible suspension
types, in practice.
5. Location of Hardpoints
The hardpoints control the static settings and the kinematics of the suspension.
The static settings are
• Toe
• Camber
• Caster
• Roll center height at design load
• Mechanical (or caster) trail
• Anti-dive and anti-squat
• Kingpin Inclination
• Scrub radius
• Spring and shock absorber motion
ratios
The kinematics describe how important characteristics change as
the suspension moves, typically in roll or steer. They include
• Bump Steer
• Roll Steer
• Tractive Force Steer
• Brake Force Steer
• Camber gain in roll
• Caster gain in roll
• Roll centre height gain
• Ackerman change with steering
angle
• Track gain in roll
6. Compliance
• The compliance of the bushings, the body, and other parts modify the
behaviour of the suspension.
• In general it is difficult to improve the kinematics of a suspension using the
bushings, but one example where it does work is the toe control bush used
in Twist-beam rear suspensions.
• More generally, modern cars suspensions include an NVH bush. This is
designed as the main path for the vibrations and forces that cause road
noise and impact noise, and is supposed to be tunable without affecting the
kinematics too much;
7. Loads
• Once the basic geometry is established the loads in each suspension part
can be estimated. This can be as simple as deciding what a likely maximum
load case is at the contact patch, and then drawing a Free body diagram of
each part to work out the forces, or as complex as simulating the behaviour
of the suspension over a rough road, and calculating the loads caused.
Often loads that have been measured on a similar suspension are used
instead - this is the most reliable method.
8. Instant Centre
• It is a projected imaginary point that is effectively the pivot
point of the linkage at that instant
• Two short links can be replaced with one longer one
• As the linkage is moved the centre moves, so proper geometric
design not only establishes all the instant centers in their
desired positions at ride height, but also controls how fast and
in what direction they move with suspension travel
9. Different Views of Instant Centre
• Instant centre – Front view
– The instant centre defines the camber change rate,
part of the roll centre information, scrub motion,
and data needed to determine the steer
characteristics
• Instant Centre-Side View
– The instant centre define the wheel forth and aft
path, anti-lift and anti dive/squat information, and
caster change rate
10. Instant Axis
• The instant axis is the line connecting the instant centre in
front and side view. This line can be thought of as the instant
axis of motion of the knuckle relative to the body
• Rear axles have two instant axes, one for parallel bump and
one for roll, these also may move with changes in ride height
11. Independent Suspensions
• For all independent suspension there are two instant centres
that establishes the properties of that particular design
• The side view instant centre (bump and droop) controls force
and motion factors predominantly related to fore and aft
accelerations
• The front view instant (or swing) centre controls force and
motion factors due to lateral accelerations
12. Front View Swing Arm Geometry (fvsa)
• The front view swing arm instant centre controls the roll centre
height (RCH), the camber change rate, and tire lateral scrub
• The IC can be located inboard of the wheel or outboard of the
wheel, it can be above ground level or below ground. The
location is up to the designers performance requirements
13. Roll Centre Height
• The roll centre establishes the force coupling point between
the unsprung and sprung masses
• Whenever a vehicle corners, the centrifugal force acts at the
Centre of Gravity of the vehicle
• The Centrifugal force is reacted at the tyre road contact as
lateral force
• The lateral force at the tyres can be translated to the roll centre
if the appropriate force and moments are shown
• The higher the roll centre the smaller the rolling moment about
the roll centre-the rolling moment is resisted by suspension
springs, the lower the roll centres the larger the rolling moment
• The higher the roll centre the lateral force that acts at the roll
centre is higher off the ground
• Lateral force * the distance to the ground is called non rolling
overturning moment
15. Jacking Effect
• If the roll centre height is high, the lateral force acting at the
tyre generates a moment about the instant centre. This moment
pushes the sprung mass up and wheel down-jacking effect.
The reverse happens if the roll centre is below the ground
17. Scrub
• This is the lateral motion relative to the ground that results
from vertical motion of the wheel. Scrub occurs in every
suspension system
• The amount of scrub is a function of the absolute and relative
lengths of the control arms and the position of the front view
instant centre relative to ground
• If the front view instant centre is at any position other than the
ground level scrub radius is increased
On a rough ground the wheel path is not a straight line if there is a scrub
18. Side View Swing Arm Geometry (svsa)
• Typically, the instant centre is behind and above the wheel
centre on front suspensions and it is ahead and above on most
rear suspensions
19. Anti Features
• The Anti effect in suspension is a term that actually describes
the longitudinal to vertical force coupling between the sprung
and un sprung masses. It results purely from the angle or slope
of the side view swing arm
• Suspension “anti’s” do not change the steady state load
transfer at the tire patch
20. Anti- Dive (Braking)
• Dynamic Load Transfer during braking to the front axle
Reaction
• This load transfers through the suspension springs resulting its
deflection, hence dive moment.
• What essentially required is to reduce the load that is passing
through the spring and make it pass through the control arm
22. If a suspension has 0% anti, then all the load transfer is
reacted by the springs and the suspension will deflect
proportional to the wheel rate, none of the transferred load
is carried by the suspension arms; 0% anti occurs when or
in the figures equals zero
33. Packaging parameters
• Tire size, rim diameter and width
• Wheel offset
• Brakes, bearings
• Kingpin length, angle, scrub radius, spindle length
• The caster, The camber
• The knuckle design
• Tie rod position
• Rack location
• Trackwidth
• Decide the upper and lower ball joint positions
• Tie rod outer position
42. Suspension Load Distribution
• Front Axle Braking per wheel:
FB =
[static+ dynamic
2
load]
=
[W
2
bcg
l
+ ma
hcg
]
l
=
W[
2
bcg
+
a
l g
hcg
]
l
= tire-road coefficient of friction W = total vehicle weight
bcg = Cg-to-rear axledistance (LR) l = wheelbase length
a = ave. longitudinal acceleration (deceleration) m = vehicle mass
hcg = Cg height g = acceleration of gravity
43. Suspension Load Distribution
• VERTICAL: (Total is commonly considered as a 3 g load)
V =
3
[W
2
bcg
l
+ ma
hcg
]
l
=
3
W[
2
bcg g +a
gl
hcg
]
45. Suspension Load Distribution
Side view front wheel SLA front suspension
LB is lower ball joint
M LB =0 Fus h= FB a
a
Fus = FB
h
Fx =0 FUS - FLS + FB = 0
F LS = FUS + FB FLS = FB [
a
+1]
h
46. Suspension Load Distribution
SLA front SUSPENSION TOPVIEW
M PSA= 0
FSB d + FUS b - FLS c - Fb rs = 0
1 Fb a
FSB =
d
[ FLS c+ Fb rs - FUS b] =
d
[ rs + c - (b -c)]
h
49. Suspension Load Distribution
FUCV = FUC sin FUCH = FUC sin
F =
V( rs +c)- FSB e - FL a
UC
sin
= FB
tan +cos h
a
FLCH
d
[( rs +c)-
(b - c)]+ FUC cos
h
- FL
52. Beam Type Axle suspension (Solid
axle/Dependent)
• The parallel jounce axis and roll axis control the characteristics
of this type of suspension
• Anti-features are similar as explained earlier
• The roll axis is found by determining the two lateral restraints
and connecting them with a line
• The slope of the roll axis is the roll steer value. If the roll axis
tilts down to the front of the vehicle when viewed from the
side then the suspension has roll understeer for a rear
suspension, if it tilts up to the front, then the suspension has
roll oversteer geometry
• Axle roll does occur in solid axle suspension unless the point
of force application is at ground level