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Awesome insight! I'll save some of these details for the morning, since it's getting late and I'm not at a workstation, but I should mention that we haven't shared any FEA yet. The model shown in the second figure is actual, recorded data from a stationary vehicle. FEA and simulations are great, and you'll definitely see a decent amount of it, but we really value good, hard data collection when possible. Hopefully we can stop just short of making me dust off my WinGeo discs.
We will definitely be refining our test methods as the project progresses and we can justify the investment. We just wanted something, even if it's rough, to justify starting the project. Between the two of us, we have a good deal of experience with FSAE, SAE Baja, racing and vehicle dynamics testing/evaluation, so if we can justify the time/resources, you can bet we'll get way too far into the data/analysis. Stick around, you're obviously a sharp dude!
Hopefully once this 8-12in of snow they're predicting for tomorrow passes, we can get back to warm, dry roads and the, uh, testing.
Matt
Engineering
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