Question for all the UK engineers here. My company is introducing a new payment scheme whereby the way tax is paid changes as follows:
1 - Stop making pension contributions as a deduction from salary
2 - Company pays pension contribution directly
3 - Company reduces gross basic salary by an...
Most race cars use turnbuckle type adjusters to lengthen/shorten the pushrods to adjust ride height. Most seem to do it using jam nuts to lock the turnbuckle following an adjustment. E.G.
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However I noticed recently that the Porsche...
As a tyre guy my knowledge of engines is a bit sketchy, so I thought I'd post for some advice.
In MotoGP the engine capacity has been reduced from 990 to 800cc. It is already apparent that rev limits are being raised to recover some of the power.
To do this many teams are using pnuematic valve...
Afternoon all. I've got to do some surface characterisation of various race tracks and intend to take some surface casts.
At this stage I was thinking of using some form of silicone resin to cast a negative then taking an epoxy positive cast from that. The idea being that the silicone avoids...
Could anyone recommend a good reference on Design of Experiments? I'm particularly interested in fractional factorial screening experiments.
Regards,
Ben
Senior Design Analyst
Dunlop Tyres
Motorsport Division
I'm trying to do a math model of a clutch pack limited slip diff and was wondering if anyone could help me with a few parameters?
1 - Clutch plate material (I'm assuming steel maybe nitirided)
2 - Friction coefficient (Wet friction in the presence of oil I guess)
3 - Disc effective radius...
I'm creating a solid in V5r9 from an existing Iges wireframe/surface model. Due to the complexity of the original surface (not all of which I need in the solid) I am creating new sufaces using sections of the existing wireframe.
When I try to join some line/curve elements I get 'non-connex'...
I'm currently designing the suspension for a Formula SAE car at Birmingham University in the UK. We have both ADAMS/Car 12.0 and Catia V5r6.
My question is, having designed my suspension based on a global co-ordinate system in ADAMS, how can I transfer those co-ords into CATIA and use them to...
