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Objective quantification of design changes is a ‘game changer’ for chassis development

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Ride comfort and vehicle handling define the perceived quality of a car and influence a customer’s buying behavior. How can a manufacturer design for a chassis or vehicle that thrills his entire customer database?
This article explains how the Simcenter integrated test and simulation solutions enable objective quantification of chassis design changes and how this is a game-changer for chassis development. It was published in the November/December 2019 issue of Vehicle Dynamics International magazine.

Integrated solutions:
  • Test for simulation: apply model-driven test approaches for the validation and analysis of dynamic performance to understand the impact of design variations, support definition of objective metrics for target setting and link objective observations to subjective perceptions
  • Simulation for a test: combine multi-domain applications within one single tire model and unified parameterization. The tire testing and model parameterization methodology delivers models that fit the requirements and improve the correlation between simulations and vehicle tests