Desenvolvimento dos sistemas de suspensão e direção para veículos do tipo formula SAE

Abstract

The work aims to develop a procedure for designing the suspension and steering systems for Formula SAE vehicles. The main goals are: weight reduction, performance improvement and parts reliability. In order to create this procedure and achieve the above goals, all the global concepts involving vehicular dynamics are used in the project, using as support the most recognized literatures in the area. The work uses the tire data, purchased from the Formula SAE (FSAE) Tire test consortium (TTC) consortium to start the project. After the analysis of the tires, the conceptual and analytical development of suspension and steering is done. Both systems are then submitted to numerical simulation in the Adams Car software, where it can be seen what will happen with the designed systems when submitted to specifics situations. After the kinematic and dynamic development, the work still proposes the design of the pieces. This occurs with the choice of material and geometry with subsequent modeling in Solidworks software and numerical simulation in ANSYS Structural software.