Department of Mechanical Engineering

Race Car Vehicle Dynamics
Spring 2004 MEEG467 TR 3:35-4:50 Room 114 Spencer
Click here for Vehicle Powertrain Theory

Dr. Steven Timmins (click for personal home page)

Grading:

• 30% Midterm,
• 40% Final,
• 15% project
• 15% Homework /Class Participation / Pop Quizzes

Office Hours MTWR 2:00 - 3:00 010a Spencer lab by appointment only
timmins@udel.edu

Books:

• Race Car vehicle Dynamics,  Milliken & Milliken
• Race Car Aerodynamics,  Joseph Katz

• Sports Car and Competition Driving, Paul Frere, Phil Hill 2003
• Competition Car Suspension, Allan Staniforth
• How to Make Your Car Handle, Fred Puhn

Tennative Syllabus
Extended (Excel Spreadsheet)

Chapters 1- 2 Intro and Tires: 2/5-7/02

• Homework Assignment
• Homework 1 Spreadsheet
• Homework 1 - answers to book problems
• Example Set Chapter 2
• PowerPoint Presentation Chapters 1-2

Chapter 4-5, Steering and Vehicle Axis Systems: 2/19-21/02

• Steering Angle Diagrams (See Powerpoint Slides beginning with #18)
• Homework 2 Assignment for Chapter 5
• Spreadsheets on Oversteer/Understeer (OS Const) (OS Var) (US Const) (US Var)
• Power Point Presentations Chapters 4-5
• Answers Homework 2

• Weight Transfer Spreadsheet (Bare) Not in book!
• Homework 3 on Chapters 6-7
• Example Answer
• PowerPoint Presentation - 7-8-9

Chapter 8:

• Transient Handling Diagram and Spreadsheet
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• Homework 4, ASSIGNMENT Revised tire data -w- ,moment equation.
• Weight Transfer Values SPREADSHEET check for use in updating spreadsheet solving Homework 4
• PowerPoint Presentation - 7-8-9

Ride and Roll Rates

  Homework 5, Exam Make Up if you got less than 90% on the midterm
 

Homework 6 944 Suspension Geometry

• Spreadsheet 1 Values (Geometry)
• Spreadsheet 2 Values (Roll Rates)
• Diagrams for 911 - Full, Skeleton, Front, Rear, Side
  

• SLA Handout
• Homework 7: SLA camber and toe change
• Sample spreadsheet (values only)
• Homework 8

• PowerPoint Presentations
• Ch 17  Suspensions and roll center
• Ch 6-16 Spring-Mass-Damper Systems,    Ride and Roll Rates

Ch 18-19-20  Steering and Advanced Weight Transfer

•     Flying Porsche
•     Flying RX7
•     Flying Mercedes

SLA Suspension Pictures

EXAM 1 Example Questions

Final Sample Questions

PowerPoint Lecture Notes:

• Ch 1-2 Intro and tires
• Ch 4-5 Steering
• Ch 7-8-9 Weight Transfer
• Ch 17-Suspensions
• Ch 6-16 Spring Mass Damper, Ride and Roll Rates
• Ch 18-19 Bump Steer and SLA suspensions
• Ch 3-15 Aerodynamics Part 1 and Part 2