Stabilizer bar
Stabilizer bar
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Hello everybody
i was looking up some formulas for calculating stabilizer bar roll stiffness, given things are:
Bar Diameter
Material properties
Lever arm length
Torsional section length
I found some data about it in thread108-40691
But the problem I was having the most formulas available dont take into effect the distance between mount bushings
To get more accurate results I was trying to take into effect the deflection due to rubber bushings as well
The methodology i am using is
1) Calculate the bending moment and torsional moment at bushing center due to vertical load at bar end.
2) Calculate bushing deflection due to bending and torsional load taking into account conical and torsional bushing rates.
3) Add thoose defections to the total deflection at bar end which can then be used to calculate roll stiffness
I am assuming a D-shaped bushing
If I did that would i be wrong??
I am a little confused if I should use radial deflection as well or my line of thought is totally messed up
In short i want to include bushing deflection also to calculate stabilizer bar roll stiffness
Any IDEAS or CORRECTIONS??
Thanks for your help!!!!!
i was looking up some formulas for calculating stabilizer bar roll stiffness, given things are:
Bar Diameter
Material properties
Lever arm length
Torsional section length
I found some data about it in thread108-40691
But the problem I was having the most formulas available dont take into effect the distance between mount bushings
To get more accurate results I was trying to take into effect the deflection due to rubber bushings as well
The methodology i am using is
1) Calculate the bending moment and torsional moment at bushing center due to vertical load at bar end.
2) Calculate bushing deflection due to bending and torsional load taking into account conical and torsional bushing rates.
3) Add thoose defections to the total deflection at bar end which can then be used to calculate roll stiffness
I am assuming a D-shaped bushing
If I did that would i be wrong??
I am a little confused if I should use radial deflection as well or my line of thought is totally messed up
In short i want to include bushing deflection also to calculate stabilizer bar roll stiffness
Any IDEAS or CORRECTIONS??
Thanks for your help!!!!!





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Some d blocks are grippy, so they add a bit to the sta bar, and rather more important, they add to the ride rate. In pure roll they don't change the overall roll rate much.
some d blocks are slippy so they don't.
2) D block location
Good luck
You are right, this is important. I don't know that a hand calculation will get you to a good solution, we use a crude FE model.
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Thanks for your reply
i know it wont be a very accurate solution but I am just trying to get into the 15% ball park, ignoring the bushing defection gives me a 50% error
one other thing that I am trying to understand is how does the mount bushing actually deflect during pure roll, and it is a slippery kind of bushing so i can probably ignore torsional defection
Does it deflect conically or radially ??
Thanks for your help
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radially, well it obviously depends on the rate. I would say that it is well inside your 15% margin though.
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Norm
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You can find a formula for rollstiffness of stabilizer bar in SAE AE-21
Martin
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or would a solid plastic be to stiff and cause problems?
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I thought of deriving a formula which takes into account bushing stiffness as well I used a spring attachment at the bushing instead of a rigid support, i am assuming half sta bar fixed at the center and calculated the Reaction force at the point using the Deflection method
Is it possible that the reaction force at the bushing is actually greater than the applied force at the free end (Thats what I am getting) and also once i know the reaction force at the bushing hence know the deflection how can I include it into overall bar deflection
Thankf for your help
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Yes
once i know the reaction force at the bushing hence know the deflection how can I include it into overall bar deflection
Add the deflection multiplied by the appropriate ratio to the deflection at the end of the bar. That's not quite right, I suspect, but good enough. The ratio is width of sta bar/width of d blocks.
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When you say width of the bar do you mean the bar diameter or the moment arm length
And also the reaction comes out in the opposite direction to the applied force hence the deflection due to the reaction force is in opposite direction, so do I have to subtract the deflection at bushing to deflection of bar end
Because the way I am calculating the deflection at bushing end is R/k where R = Reaction force and k = spring stiffness
Thanks
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[BushingRadialStiffness (lb/in)] * [BushingSpacing (in)]^2 / 114.58
where the resulting roll resistance is in units of in-lbs/deg and would be in series with the bar's own roll resistance of
[BarEndRate (lb/in)] * [TotalBarWidth (in) ]^2 / 114.58
Rates as applied through endlinks or other bushed bar and connection would include the effects of stiffnesses for those bushings (also as springs in series).
Norm
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I am working on rubber bushing of stabilizer bar. It's for car suspension. The radial stiffeness should be 4kN/mm (+/- 15%), torsional 1 to 1.5 Nm/deg and conical < 1.5 Nm/deg.
Greg - you have told above that the there no conical deflection:
"GregLocock (Automotive)
15 Dec 05 16:16
conically -no
radially, well it obviously depends on the rate. I would
say that it is well inside your 15% margin though."
Are you sure that the bushing haven't any deflection in conical direction? Only pure roll? I suppose that sometimes the bar can bend - the requirements told us that conical stiffeness lesser is better.
So I wonder what you are thinking about it.
Thanks for your help
Greg
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But if you're looking into loads carried through the bushings and their brackets for the purposes of designing THEM, there will be some conical bushing deformation involved, and the brackets as well as the bushings must obviously be designed to accommodate the induced loads reliably over time & number/severity of cycles. Somewhere I saw a photograph where bending deformation of the torsional portion of a sta-bar was clearly present. Unfortunately, I can't find it any more, but going off memory there might have been something like 5* of bar angularity going through the bushings.
Norm
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Many practical sta bar installations have D blocks in the wrong place, and angled outer arms, and many have kinked torsional runs. Once you do that bending will always come into play. If your D block has a high coning rate then this will tend to prise the D block mounting apart.
I still wouldn't get madly upset by high coning rates - after all plenty of people run nylon D blocks, if only on circuit cars.
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I have developed a Finite element tool that uses beam elements to model a stabilizer bar and have also built in the bushings.
I am able to get the deflections for all the beams, my question is what is the most accurate way (use which deflections) to get roll stiffness number for the stabar system (Sta bar system means stabilizer bar and bushings only)
Thanks for your help
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You actually need to model the effect at the wheel end so that will include the motion ratio and the effect of the angle of inclination of the sta bar link, assuming you have one.
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I am not modeling the control arms but i know the motion ratios through my kinematics model and I know the deflections
but how do i calculate the stabilizer bar stiffness at the link end and not the wheel I will worry about the wheel later
I am aiming at less than 5% error from an ADAMS model
Appreciate any help
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it's actually quite tricky if the links are inclined and the sta bar is not horizontal (etc) which is why ADAMS was invented.
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How do you model that complex situation in ADAMS today lets just assume a ball-ball link
i would really like to understand how the load path is defined because I am assuming even in ADAMS you use beam elements to define your stabilizer bar and some kind of bushing or spring element for your bushings
and I think i can incorporate that into my FEA model since I am coding everything
The reason why I dont want to do that in ADAMS is because it is too complicated for a normal user to use and we r looking at a simpler tool without compromising the accuracy a lot
Thanks for all your help
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So, that is pretty straightforward.
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that can probable be modeled as a 6D spring element
I know there is another one the grommet kind thats complicated I have no idea how to model that
Thanks for your help
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I am not sure how accurate that would be but just a try
Thanks
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I am at a stage where my bar rate with bushings using a tool i created is coming out pretty close compared to Adams and Nastran.
But I am stuck at one spot, I want to model the links in the system as well and get the stabilizer bar system rate,
For a bayonet-bayonet (two rubber bungs with cup washers) joint which is perpendicular to the ground plane which are the important stiffness directions (I believe its 1) along link axis and probably conical ones also not sure though)
and also could you comment on bayonet -ball and spool-spool kind of joint too
I ahve a 6 dof spring that i want to use for the links and apply stiffness along the relevant direction
Thanks for all your help
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I'm not too sure what your various link types are, I've used the pair of rubber bungs with cup washers, and ball joints, only.
I think you'd be moderately insane to go with the rubber bungs in practice, except for off road use, or where cost is an overriding concern, or the articulation angle of the joint exceeds 24 degrees. Every time we fit ball joints in place of bungs we like the difference.
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