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    The document provides guidance on designing a vehicle for competition. It discusses following the rules, understanding constraints, obtaining sponsorship, planning efficiently, integrating design and development, innovating, documenting work, and examples of vehicle designs. Key points covered include reading the rules, tackling constraints, what sponsors seek in return for support, using tools for planning and testing, learning from past designs, and ensuring objectives and results are documented. Examples of suspension and drivetrain designs are shown, some with potential issues noted. The conclusion stresses designing correctly upfront to avoid last-minute changes.

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    Design To Win

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    The document provides guidance on designing a vehicle for competition. It discusses following the rules, understanding constraints, obtaining sponsorship, planning efficiently, integrating design and development, innovating, documenting work, and examples of vehicle designs. Key points covered include reading the rules, tackling constraints, what sponsors seek in return for support, using tools for planning and testing, learning from past designs, and ensuring objectives and results are documented. Examples of suspension and drivetrain designs are shown, some with potential issues noted. The conclusion stresses designing correctly upfront to avoid last-minute changes.

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    12/6/2010

    ‘Design to Win’

    ‘Design to Win’ Introduction


    • Rules
    • The Constraints
    • Sponsorship
    • Planning
    • Design & Development
    • Innovation
    • Documentation
    • …some designs to look at
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    The Rules
    • Read the rules!
    – Understand what it is that is required!
    – You will never earn back penalties!

    The Constraints
    • Resource
    • Facilities
    • Funding
    • Capability

    What can you do to tackle your teams


    constraints?

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    Sponsorship
    • What is possible within the time, people, facilities
    and money?
    • Who you approach
    – Money
    – Parts
    • Technical capability/support
    • Availability
    – Facilities
    – Advice (technical, management, financial etc)
    • The Approach: What you can offer the sponsor?

    Sponsorship
    • The Approach: What you can offer the
    sponsor?
    – Think beyond name on the car
    – What is value to the sponsor?
    – Product Development: Testing/data
    • In the lab
    • On the track
    – A New Market

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    Planning
    • Efficient Use of Time
    – Management
    – Tools
    • Planning (Mind manager/mindjet)
    • DOE (DOE XL, JMP, Simulations)
    –x
    • 6S

    Designing & Developing a Car


    • Integration
    • Use previous cars & teams experience
    • Use previous years tools, develop where
    appropriate
    • Know what you want to do and why
    • Capturing Requirements: QFD etc
    • SMART Goals
    • Data driven decisions
    • Understand and quantify the compromises, trade
    off studies, consensus as a team.

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    Innovation
    • Simple (Mechanical, Materials, Process etc)
    • Question what has been done before.
    Where does it fail? How could it be better?
    • Working with Industry
    • What can you do that would help your
    work?

    Documentation
    • Objectives of Tests
    • What you did & why
    • How you did it, observations
    • Results & Conclusions
    • How you’d do it differently next time

    5
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    Here follows some examples of design, some


    good, others less so!

    Suspension –
    Rod end in
    bending, due to
    both brake
    torque but also
    damper
    alignment..
    Double trouble!

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    Suspension – Wide toe base,


    no rod ends in bending, 2
    piece adjustable upright, thin
    wheel centre

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    Suspension – Elegant 2 piece


    upright design. Uses serations
    at the top to adjust camber –
    chance of misaligning teeth.
    Also, have to adjust toe every
    time camber is adjusted.

    Use of Al MMC brake discs –


    very light, requires special
    pads and diamond tip tools to
    machine

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    Suspension – 2 piece
    adjustable upright
    uses shims to alter
    camber. Camber
    change won’t effect
    toe.

    Machined from billet


    material – expensive

    Well supported
    floating disc brake

    Suspension – Rear subframe


    is very narrow – question
    lateral stiffness.

    Geometry will have poor


    camber compensation.

    Rocker bolts mounted in


    single shear

    Inboard mounted rear brakes


    – lowers unsprung mass

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    Drivetrain – flexi
    couplings, carbon
    driveshafts

    Suspension:
    Carbon fibre
    components,
    2 piece rear
    upright

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    Suspension – Rod end in


    bending, poor rotor design

    Suspension – Easy
    adjustable anti roll bar

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    Design it right and


    you won’t need to
    make last minute
    modifications!

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