Hi,
Does anyone know any resource on the NET that explains the physics
behind suspenion dynamics? Or perhaps a good book still in print?
Regards,
John
Hi,
Does anyone know any resource on the NET that explains the physics
behind suspenion dynamics? Or perhaps a good book still in print?
Regards,
John
Bastow, Donald, and G. Howard, _Car Suspension and Handling,
Third Edition_, Pentech Press Ltd, London, 1993.
Campbell, Colin, _New Directions in Suspension Design - Making the
Fast Car Faster_, Robert Bentley Inc., Cambridge MA, 1981.
Milliken, William F. and Douglas L., _Race Car Vehicle Dynamics_,
SAE Publications, Warrendale, PA, 1995.
Smith, Carroll, _Tune to Win_, Aero Publishers Inc., Fallbrook, CA,
1978.
Randy
Performance Handling
How to Make Your Car Handle
Techniques For The 1990s
by Don Alexander
from Motorbooks International
Copyright 1991
You might also see if you can get the last 4 issues of SportsCar which is
published by the SCCA. They each had an article in them that explained
setting up a car's suspension. The last article was the best (September
1996) as it explained how to correct different instances of understeer and
oversteer....ie. corner entry, steady state corner, and corner exit.
writes:
Try "Inside Racing Technology" by Paul Haney & Jeff Braun. You should
find it at your local bookstore in the automotive section. It helped me
figure out a few things about making cars handle better.
>Does anyone know any resource on the NET that explains the physics
>behind suspenion dynamics? Or perhaps a good book still in print?
>Regards,
>John
Dave (davids) Sparks
Late Night League
http://www.sequoia-dev.com/Hawaii/latenite.html
> Dunno about on the net, but how 'bout:
> Bastow, Donald, and G. Howard, _Car Suspension and Handling,
> Third Edition_, Pentech Press Ltd, London, 1993.
> Campbell, Colin, _New Directions in Suspension Design - Making the
> Fast Car Faster_, Robert Bentley Inc., Cambridge MA, 1981.
> Milliken, William F. and Douglas L., _Race Car Vehicle Dynamics_,
> SAE Publications, Warrendale, PA, 1995.
> Smith, Carroll, _Tune to Win_, Aero Publishers Inc., Fallbrook, CA,
> 1978.
> Randy
Happy Lappin'
Wade Tschida
W_Cheeta (Hawaii)
> > > Does anyone know any resource on the NET that explains the physics
> > > behind suspenion dynamics? Or perhaps a good book still in print?
> > Dunno about on the net, but how 'bout:
> > Bastow, Donald, and G. Howard, _Car Suspension and Handling,
> > Third Edition_, Pentech Press Ltd, London, 1993.
> > Campbell, Colin, _New Directions in Suspension Design - Making the
> > Fast Car Faster_, Robert Bentley Inc., Cambridge MA, 1981.
> > Milliken, William F. and Douglas L., _Race Car Vehicle Dynamics_,
> > SAE Publications, Warrendale, PA, 1995.
> > Smith, Carroll, _Tune to Win_, Aero Publishers Inc., Fallbrook, CA,
> > 1978.
> > Randy
> Check out http://reality.sgi.com/employees/rck/PhOR/index.htm
> "Physics Of Racing", it's an overly informative series that illustrates how all
> systems on a race car affect (effect?) the whole.
> Happy Lappin'
> Wade Tschida
> W_Cheeta (Hawaii)
I went to Barnes & Noble and found none of the above books. I'll look
elsewhere.
The reason I ask about suspension theory is: while all the physics of
racing sites make sense they don't neatly point out what to do with a
ICR2 or NASCAR setup. I've found two list for the sim setups.
Unfortunately one explains why to do something
www.sequoia-dev.com/Hawaii/Features/setupguide.html
and the other just says "if this then that" whith out any reasoning.
userwww.servuce.emory.edu/~ebusch/quickfix.html
The later seems to be more accurate. As usual you may find it on the
net, but you never really know if it's correct.
Regards,
John
>> > > Does anyone know any resource on the NET that explains the physics
>> > > behind suspenion dynamics? Or perhaps a good book still in print?
>> > Dunno about on the net, but how 'bout:
>> > Bastow, Donald, and G. Howard, _Car Suspension and Handling,
>> > Third Edition_, Pentech Press Ltd, London, 1993.
>> > Campbell, Colin, _New Directions in Suspension Design - Making the
>> > Fast Car Faster_, Robert Bentley Inc., Cambridge MA, 1981.
>> > Milliken, William F. and Douglas L., _Race Car Vehicle Dynamics_,
>> > SAE Publications, Warrendale, PA, 1995.
>> > Smith, Carroll, _Tune to Win_, Aero Publishers Inc., Fallbrook, CA,
>> > 1978.
>> > Randy
>> Check out http://reality.sgi.com/employees/rck/PhOR/index.htm
>> "Physics Of Racing", it's an overly informative series that illustrates
how all
>> systems on a race car affect (effect?) the whole.
>> Happy Lappin'
>> Wade Tschida
>> W_Cheeta (Hawaii)
>Hi,
>I went to Barnes & Noble and found none of the above books. I'll look
>elsewhere.
>The reason I ask about suspension theory is: while all the physics of
>racing sites make sense they don't neatly point out what to do with a
>ICR2 or NASCAR setup. I've found two list for the sim setups.
>Unfortunately one explains why to do something
> www.sequoia-dev.com/Hawaii/Features/setupguide.html
>and the other just says "if this then that" whith out any reasoning.
> userwww.servuce.emory.edu/~ebusch/quickfix.html
>The later seems to be more accurate. As usual you may find it on the
>net, but you never really know if it's correct.
>Regards,
>John
Dave (davids) Sparks
Late Night League
http://www.sequoia-dev.com/Hawaii/latenite.html