Camber, caster, and toe

[Conor]

What are your teams doing to design a suspension that incorporates and accomodates for these three different variables? What types of books, equations, and software are you using?

[Conor]

What are your teams doing to design a suspension that incorporates and accomodates for these three different variables? What types of books, equations, and software are you using?

[Jersey Tom]

Two words. Data acquisition.

[Sathersc]

We're a first year team, so we have no data or ideas to base things off of, so we're going between Solid Edge and WinGeo3 from Bill Mitchell to make things fit in a manner we hope will handle well. I've spent countless hours reading every suspension thread on the forum I could find, and I also picked up a copy of Race Car and Vehicle Dynamics at the competition.

Using that we're going to do a lot of guess and check. We're already into the construction phase though, so we hope to have enough time to test to learn our left wheel from our differential before May.

[Adam D. Bell]

You can read the following tech papers:

http://web.umr.edu/~formula/library/sae_paper/paper.html (http://web.umr.edu/%7Eformula/library/sae_paper/paper.html)

http://www.mecheng.adelaide.edu.au/courses/undergrad/pr...s2001/lim_lim_co.pdf (http://www.mecheng.adelaide.edu.au/courses/undergrad/projects/level4papers2001/lim_lim_co.pdf)

http://www.mem.drexel.edu/seniordesign/prevyears/MMSD-Sample-Proposal-2.pdf

Books:
Race Car Dynamics by Milliken and Milliken
Racing Chassis and Suspension Design By Carroll Smith

The Carroll Smith Race Car Set by Carrol Smith


To get an idea of what the pro's do:

How pro's do it. (http://www.mscsoftware.com/support/library/conf/adams/euro/2002/papers/Audi_Optimization_week4602.pdf)

Hope this helps http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif