r/FSAE

I am an engineering student preparing for the formula bharat competition and my sector is VD in my college Club, so how do I start studying vehicle dynamics, any ideas?

I am currently reading 'tune to win' and watching some youtube videos for the related topics.

I am curious about significant deltas that would make competing in both FSAE and FS with one car more difficult.

I'm less concerned about things like how the cost event is done, or the presentation event, or points.

Are there vehicle construction deltas or items you have to change or that cannot be accommodated between the two rulesets? Can you highlight them and talk about how you work around them if you compete in both rulesets?

I know some students express desire for a harmonized ruleset, but are rarely specific about where things get challenging. While there's an element of "well, compare the rulebooks" like duh, there's also the "meta" of the vehicle that has trickle down effects into vehicle design that make them incompatible with one ruleset or the other.

Thanks, I'd really appreciate your perspective.

Like how do you guys do force calculations for knuckles hubs , previously we followed a research paper but it overestimated forces as it didnt take consideration of forces reduced by joints , coz joints take impact and reduce a little load can u guys tell if you follow any method or research paper pls share it here it will be very helpfull

I run a channel about F1 and motorsport careers and tomorrow I will interview Dr. Mohamed Aly Sayed: PhD, now working as a CFD Methodology Engineer at Audi's F1 team in Switzerland and he was at Aston Martin (Jr. CFD Engineer) before that.

I'd rather ask what you'd ask than the obvious stuff. If you had an hour with him, what would you want to know about getting there?

Some of my questions so far:

1. What got you into F1? What got you the interview vs. what got you the job?
2. Everyone says they want to be an aerodynamicist. What are the actual roles in your group, and which ones are easier to break into?
3. What does a normal week look like? Mostly setting up runs, or mostly meetings about them?
4. How well does CFD line up with the wind tunnel, and then with the track?
5. Building up a team at Audi vs. joining an established one at Aston Martin. What is different?

So let me know what you'd like to find out, and I'll ask him and report back.

Hello!
Can we put our sdc, and other pcbs in epozy resin for an extra mechanical resistance,and for insulating?
We will take photos to the process to show to the judges how we proceed.

It is ok? Its no problem if we do this?
Idk, to get penality s from judges or not pass the inspectios...

My first year project in my college's FSAE team was a pretty basic project (i.e. the part I was in charge of wasn't structural so I didn't need to do heavy calculations or anything). Now, I need to figure out what I want to work on next year; I've been reading our design reviews for different systems/projects and they all seem so complicated with so many detailed numbers. And most were also done by sophomores. I'm not afraid to learn necessarily, but the learning curve from this year to next year seems so high, and I wouldn't want to let anyone down if I don't reach a similar level of detail and thinking with my future project. For those of you who were in similar shoes, do you have any experiences/tips to share that helped you get up to level?

last day at michigan, a design judge told us the master cylinder's longitudinal axis needs to be perpendicular to the balance bar bracket so there's no force loss / side loading through the pushrod, and asked us to repackage around that. The result is on the photo. Foot force on the pedal arm, a bell crank at the top, and the balance bar + MCs mounted so the MC axis stays perpendicular to the bracket (parallel to the pedal arm). With this geometry the effective output arm ends up being the perpendicular offset of the MC line from the pivot rather than a simple straight-lever length, so I'm not sure how it compares to a conventional pedal-ratio range.

For teams already using a perpendicular bell-crank pedal like this

What pedal ratio are you running?

-Did the bell crank push you higher or lower than a straight pedal would?

Trying to sanity-check where we should be targeting.

We are a first year EV team looking for a budget motor. Our primary goal is to make a running car for now and then refine it the following years.

I am currently working on the suspension system of my first year formula student car and i came across a few software for suspension simulation, I need to know where I can download them for free(cracked version, The software was listed below:

1. Optimum kinematics

2. Msc adams

3. Lotus Shark

If anyone knows about it dm me and if there is any other software that I can use for suspension simulation,suggest me.

There is a template called mini baja template for double wishbone suspension but in that template it is a damper to lower wishbone type but in our vehicle we use damper to upper wishbone so if anyone has used that template pls help me how to change it , through hardpoints i cant able to change to coz it is modeled within lower wishbone .