SLA Suspension Example

This example, referred to as MV3010 in this section, describes the optimization of an SLA suspension and is also available in MotionSolve tutorial MV-3010: Optimization using MotionView - HyperStudy.

Figure 1.

The design objective

Design a suspension such that the toe vs. ride height curve matches a target curve shown in red in the image below.

Figure 2.

The design variables

The Y- and Z-coordinates of the inner tie-rod ball joint and the outer tie-rod ball joint. There are four DVs and their design limits are specified as follows:

DV	Value	(bL, bU)
outerTieRodBall_y	-565.15	(-651.15, -551.15)
outerTieRodBall_z	+248.92	(+190.92, +250.92)
innerTieRodBall_y	-215.90	(-298.90, -209.90)
innerTieRodBall_z	+276.86	(+230.86, +278.86)

The constraints

There are no optimization constraints for this example.