Suspension Geometry

• Controls Toe Angle Movement

• Controls Camber Gain

• Controls Ride Height Movement

• Good geometry gives the springs, dampers, and anti-roll bars more influence than the geometry itself

Methods for a detached wheel to disable High Voltage:

• De-pin and separate outboard communication connector

• Break communication cable

• Mechanically pull apart inboard communication cable

Many of the common issues with FSAE halfshafts stem from these problems:

• Extreme misalignment between differential and wheel hub

• Tripod housing depth too shallow or too deep on either or both ends

• Contaminants in grease
  

• Comparing and engineering for different materials

• Strength, stiffness, triangulation, load paths, gussets

• Suspension loading

• EV Accumulator mounts

• Bearing Style Selection

• Misalignment Limits

• Installation

The most common barrier between your team and your performance goals is reliability. These design best practices are intended to help you create strong, stiff, and light mechanical designs. Every design requires tradeoffs, and this list is not intended to be a set of absolute rules; but it will help you identify common design strategies to follow, pitfalls to avoid, and will inform your design decision making.

Stopwatches, garage beams, thermometers, cameras, chalk, zip ties, yarn, and smartphones.

Defining requirements, validating models, on-car tuning, and understanding the root cause of problems. The process of developing and troubleshooting a steering system.

Chassis, mass, and aerodynamic interactions affecting steady-state balance, and the purpose of anti-roll bars.

Skidpad testing, understeer gradient, handling and driver feedback, simulation with tire force and moment data.