Andrea Lepera
Ride Height and Wheel-to-Body Setup Optimization - Engineering vs Styling.
Rel. Carlo Rosso. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Automotive Engineering (Ingegneria Dell'Autoveicolo), 2024
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This document is the result of the project that I conducted during my 6-months internship at the Ford Motor Company site in Cologne, Germany. The thesis focuses on optimizing ride height and wheel-to-body setup, with a specific emphasis on testing and design for the wheel arch and its functional area. The work is divided into five main chapters, including the introductory and concluding chapters. It begins with an in-depth technical review of tire characteristics, followed by an analysis of the legal constraints imposed by the ETRTO (European Tire and Rim Technical Organization). Next, different approaches to develop tires and clearance envelopes for implementation of updates during the design phase are discussed.
The third chapter analyses the suspension system, covering technical reviews of key features and configurations that influence the wheel arch area, as well as testing for kinematic and compliance (K&C) simulations and the resulting data
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