FSAE Outboard Suspension Design
This is the second year that I am my Formula SAE team's Lead Suspension Engineer and this past summer I designed and developed our latest car's (named F32) outboard suspension. This subsystem on the car includes the hub & wheel center assemblies as well as the uprights. Looking back on it, it was a tremendous learning experience and had greatly developed my design and analysis skills. Final Front Outboard Suspension Assembly Design Below is a basic diagram of the design process that I followed while designing this. I find that this is a helpful diagram for teaching new engineers on the team the basic steps that should be taken when designing. This is also the order in which I will step through in this post. Diagram of The Design Process Objective For this system of the car, the objective was to efficiently design a robust and serviceable outboard suspension assembly. To me, efficiently designing something is when just the right amount of iterating is performed and it s