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Old 08-18-2012, 10:15 AM
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Originally Posted by BobW
At this point the program does not take into account chassis torsional stiffness and potential adjustments that can be made. The math gets much more complicated when you include that variable. I have some ideas on how it could be incorporated into the program but I would have to build a test fixture to measure the torsional stiffness. I doubt it could be calculated accurately enough when you consider all the variables. Long story short it could happen but no promises.

Next upgrades will be to the dynamics module to allow setup changes to be compared head to head. I'm hoping to include better graphics to help with visualization. Following that I'm thinking of adding shock dynamics and damping module. That's about as far ahead as I have planned.
Thanks Bob, I figured chassis flex would be very difficult to simulate.

Given your engineer background and suspension dynamics research how much do your feel chassis flex plays into setup and is there a way to approximate flex into your calculations?
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