Kinematic Analysis and Design Optimization of Rear Suspension of an ATV

Abstract

The objective of this work is to design and analyse the rear suspension of an All Terrain Vehicle. Suspension kinematics are designed for a mini BAJA ATV used in racing using multi body dynamics approach in LOTUS SHARK software. Modifications are done on the current geometry which is a semi trailing arm suspension and rear links are added to increase the adjustability as well reduce the variation of camber, toe, half track width and roll center height. By altering the design the drive shaft articulation limits are achieved which protects the universal joints from damage. By minimizing the variation in toe and camber angle the straight ahead tendency of the car increases also reducing the tire wear on different terrains during the race. The reduction in the variation of half track width and roll center height increases the stability of the vehicle during sharp maneuvers and uneven terrain thus increasing the stability of vehicle.

Authors and Affiliations

Nikhil Bakal, Mohak Samant, Juzer Kothawala, Prof. Ravi K

Keywords

Related Articles

A Comparative Study of the Effect of Infill Walls between the Full Infilled Frame and Partial Infilled Frame under Lateral Load

The finite element technique is used for modeling of the infill frames using the ANSYS workbench and the analysis of brickwork infilled plane frames under lateral loads. Two type infill frame modal are design such as fu...

Data Handling using Oracle Data Guard by the Transfer of Log Sequence.

Oracle Data Guard ensures high availability, data protection, and disaster recovery for enterprise data. Data Guard provides a comprehensive set of services that create, maintain, manage, and monitor one or more standby...

slugSoft-checkpoint based Checkpointing Algorithm for Mobile Distributed Systems

There are number of issues needs to handle in mobile computing systems like mobility, lack of stable storage on mobile nodes, disconnections, limited battery power and high failure rate of mobile nodes which causes...

Analysis and Simulation of E-Shape Microstrip Patch Antenna for Wideband Applications

This paper presents the design and simulation of E-shape microstrip patch antenna with wideband operating frequency for wireless application. The shape will provide the broad bandwidth which is required in various appli...

Optimal Path Selection in Dynamic Source Routing

Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) is a collection of independent mobile nodes that can communicate with each other via radio waves. The mobile nodes that are in radio range of each other can directly communicate, whereas ot...

Download PDF file
  • EP ID EP21015
  • DOI -
  • Views 235
  • Downloads 7

How To Cite

Nikhil Bakal, Mohak Samant, Juzer Kothawala, Prof. Ravi K (2015). Kinematic Analysis and Design Optimization of Rear Suspension of an ATV. International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology (IJRASET), 3(6), -. https://europub.co.uk./articles/-A-21015