In the design of rear suspension for SUV(Sport Utility Vehicle) there would be multitude of apparently conflicting factors towards which the designer struggles to progress. It will be helpful to co-work with main suppliers before proceeding detail des...
In the design of rear suspension for SUV(Sport Utility Vehicle) there would be multitude of apparently conflicting factors towards which the designer struggles to progress. It will be helpful to co-work with main suppliers before proceeding detail design avoiding the aforementioned conflicting factors such as cost, weight, good packaging and part productivity, including ride and handling. For developing high performance rear suspension, because rear suspension is much more influenced to the handling of vehicle, we suggest rear multi-link suspension and tire model to the suppliers, they modeled them with ADAMS using 3D CATIA modeling, and we combined them with the existing full vehicle model which has old rear suspension for comparing its handling performance. Furthermore we standardized handling evaluation procedure using several index. By doing that we can optimize the suspension type for the new vehicle in the early design stage.