Design suspension geometry that actually wins races

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Track: Engineering

Difficulty: advanced

Estimated duration: 420 minutes

Coverage: 6 modules, 20 lessons

Course Overview

For advanced engineers and serious owner-operators who need to design, analyze, and tune race-car suspension kinematics and damping from first principles.

Modules

• Build a kinematic foundation you can trust - 3 lessons - Establish the geometric primitives that govern wheel motion: instant centers, roll centers, and camber curves.
• Match springs, bars, and dampers to the kinematics - 4 lessons - Translate wheel-rate targets into real hardware: springs, anti-roll bars, and damper curves.
• Test the suspension before the car turns a wheel - 3 lessons - Use kinematics rigs, compliance rigs, and finite-element models to validate that the built suspension matches the design intent.
• Use geometry to solve handling problems - 3 lessons - Apply anti-dive, anti-squat, roll-center migration, and third springs to specific handling scenarios.
• Look inside the damper - 4 lessons - Deep-dive into shock-absorber internals based on the Dixon Shock Absorber Handbook.
• Design the structure that carries it all - 3 lessons - Spaceframe, monocoque, and semi-monocoque chassis architectures for racing.

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