VDL Cars Library
The VDL Car Suspensions Library targets suspension and steering system development. It provides detailed suspension modeling and analysis capabilities, both on subsystem level and in chassis and vehicles. This includes both ready-to-use topologies, test rigs and experiments, templates and components. The suspension models are useful for studying the effects of mechanical re-design or to analyze or design actively controlled suspension with embedded actuators.
Modular layout
All suspension and linkage models are designed with dedicated joint, link, and mechanism models. These components are special for the geometric suspension option and features hard point description, adapted animation, elastic properties, force visualization and more. This makes it easy to design configurations from scratch or modify existing ones. The library comes with a set of predefined geometric layouts adapted to passenger cars and light trucks, including McPherson, double-wishbone, trailing arm, fivelink, live axle, and many more.
As for any other Vehicle Dynamics Library subsystem, it is straightforward to customize suspensions and add active components for e.g. control design. Additionally, experiments and test rigs for dedicated analysis are included. This facilitates evaluation already at subsystem level.
To find out more you can download the brochure.
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