These lectures provide the theoretical background for the development of elements of car suspensions. The subject is the technical analysis of critical suspension and drive train elements with a focus on composite materials. This includes basic principles for the design and optimization of critical vehicle elements using composite materials, as well as classical concepts related to mass reduction in automotive systems. The course integrates concepts related to vehicle parameters such as stiffness into overall vehicle dynamics using closed form solutions that are described in exquisite detail. The discussions focus on key elements of the vehicle including suspension and powertrain.
Content of lectures:
- The description of the elastic-kinematics of the vehicle and closed form solutions for the vertical and lateral dynamics
- Evaluation of the vertical, lateral, and roll stiffness of the vehicle
- Modelling of the vehicle stiffness
- The composite materials for the suspension and powertrain design
- Mechanical properties of composite materials in automotive design
- Dozent/in: Vladimir Kobelev