APPLIED VEHICLE DYNAMICS
“You will never have a full understanding of vehicle dynamics without this course as a base. While the screeching tires and smoke add to the e¥ect, the experience “sticks” in your head.” Shad Tisdale Research Engineer - Tire Mechanics Cooper Tire & Rubber Company
While a variety of new engineering tools are becoming available to assist in creating optimal vehicle designs, subjective evaluation of vehicle behavior is still a vital tool to ensure desired braking, handling, and other dynamic response characteristics. In order to better prepare you for this task, this course o¥ers study devoted to the key fundamental principles associated with longitudinal and lateral vehicle dynamics. Each classroom session is paired with an on-track exercise to immediately reinforce concepts with a dedicated behind-the-wheel driving session, e¥ectively illustrating these principles in the real world. Exercises build the bridge between vehicle dynamics theory and practical application by providing a rich academic underpinning and then reinforcing it with highly focused and relevant driving experiences. Significant technical skill-building is provided, with increased instructor supervised track time to further absorb the principles learned on days one and two. If your job description does require performance driving skills, the dynamic exercises on day three will lay a solid foundation on which you can independently refine your own skills. LEARNING OBJECTIVES By attending this seminar, you will be able to: • Explain tire-road friction limits and compose the friction circle for a given vehicle system • Compute fundamental braking response attributes • Illustrate the physics of turning and calculate lateral weight transfer • Estimate brake system balance and brake proportioning • Measure and graph a vehicle’s understeer gradient • Analyze basic anti-lock brake system (ABS) operation • Discuss the e¥ectiveness and limitations of electronic stability control (ESC) systems • Calculate the most eªcient path for a vehicle to negotiate a given test maneuver • Comprehend the subtle e¥ects that vehicle positioning has on vehicle speed • Predict what response characteristics can be influenced by vehicle state • Define those vehicle dynamic attributes which can be impacted through vehicle selection
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