Tolerance design of vehicle suspensions is an important factor that affects the ride and handling quality and cost of the vehicle. This paper presents a method for tolerance analysis of wheel alignment of vehicle suspension. Monte Carlo simulation met...
Tolerance design of vehicle suspensions is an important factor that affects the ride and handling quality and cost of the vehicle. This paper presents a method for tolerance analysis of wheel alignment of vehicle suspension. Monte Carlo simulation method is applied to multibody elasto-kinematic model to analyze the accumulated tolerances of wheel alignment. This paper also presents an efficient modeling and analysis method for elasto-kinematic model of vehicle suspensions by computing the stiffness matrix analytically. The simulation results of a Macpherson Strut demonstrates the validity and accuracy of the proposed method.