Student
News

Optimum Kinematics Forces Module – Track Replay

Optimum Kinematics Forces Module – Track Replay

While there are plenty of methods that can be used to calculate the worst-case scenario for a vehicle’s suspension, there is no better way to know than from track data. Rather than estimating the performance envelope of a vehicle by considering the maximum forces that...

read more
OptimumKinematics Forces Module – A Case Study

OptimumKinematics Forces Module – A Case Study

OptimumKinematics aids users in the design and setup of their suspension in an intuitive and straightforward manner, providing useful analysis tools with a user-friendly visual interface. OptimumKinematics is the easiest way for engineers to understand and maximize...

read more
OptimumG Announces New Software Pricing

OptimumG Announces New Software Pricing

OptimumG announced this week their move towards a subscription based software licensing on all of their software solutions including OptimumKinematics, OptimumTire and OptimumDynamics. This move was done in order to stay true to their company’s mission. OptimumG’s...

read more
Characterising tracks for set-up solutions

Characterising tracks for set-up solutions

OptimumG’s Claude Rouelle explains why, and where, you might want to make use of an asymmetric set-up on your racecar. Having difficulties convincing someone to use more camber on the right-hand side than on the left for a counter-clockwise circuit; running higher tyre pressure on one side than the other; using different damper settings?

read more
The four secrets for chassis happiness

The four secrets for chassis happiness

Claude Rouelle explores the possibilities of qualifying and quantifying a racecar design or set-up through grip, balance, control and stability. In the racing industry, I often find engineers that perform simulations in the same way barmen create cocktails: by (sometimes randomly) mixing ingredients and varying quantities until they eventually find something that matches their taste.

read more
Getting more from  your yaw diagrams

Getting more from your yaw diagrams

Our analysis of yaw versus lateral acceleration continues with Claude Rouelle’s explanation of the yaw moment diagram and how to interpret it. We will start this article by reviewing some basic concepts. As we have seen in the previous articles on the yaw moment versus lateral acceleration method, an understeering car is defined as a car that doesn’t have enough yaw moment and an oversteering car is a car with too much yaw moment.

read more