Testing: Ride and Handling

We work primarily for automotive customers drawn from all over the world, but we are now handling increasing amounts of commercial and military vehicle work as well.  Our speciality is design, development, and general trouble shooting in the areas of vehicle ride, handling, and steering performance.  We have extensive experience of developing vehicles to suit different market tastes e.g. European, American and Asian. 

 - MIRA Vehicle Dynamics

 - MIRA Vehicle Dynamics Design & Development Process

 - Case Study: Ford

 - Future Developments, Continuous Investment & Industry Contribution.

MIRA Vehicle Dynamics

Design, Development and Problem Solving expertise for Ride, Handling and Steering applications Experienced Vehicle Dynamics team (150+ man years of experience) Industries: Automotive, Commercial & Military Vehicles

• Vehicle Dynamics and Steering Development for International Markets                         

• Proven Track Record over 60 years

• Vehicle Design, Development Simulation and Testing.

• Vehicle Design Expertise:
  • Consultancy within full vehicle, subsystem and detailed design areas
  • Detail design using CAD packages such as Catia
  • Integration with other CAE departments (FEA,NVH,CFD)

 

• Vehicle Development Expertise
  • Subjective and objective vehicle assessments
  • Damper development
  • Steering feel
  • Limit Handling

 

• Vehicle Simulation Expertise:

• Multi-body dynamic simulations such as ADAMS
• Reduced DOF simultaions within Matlab/Simulink...etc.

 

• Vehicle Testing Expertise:
  • Ease of use of Proving Ground and workshop
  • Kinematics and Compliance Testing
  • Suspension components tests
  • Steering Robot
  • Ride Meter
  • Vehicle Benchmarking
  • Tyre Benchmarking

 

• Vehicle Development Team Subjective & Objective:

                 Damper tuning, Steering feel, Problem solving Limit

                 handling

•  Design & Simulation Tools:

                 Catia, Multi-body Dynamics (ADAMS) Parametric Modelling, Matlab, Excel & First

                 principal hand calculation’s

• Test Team Objective:

                 Twin Axle K&C Rig, Quasi-static vehicle data collection, Ride Meter Benchmarking,

                 Steering Robot

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Design & Development Process

1. Program Definition & Concept Development
2. Proto-type Development & Sign-off
3. Production Optimisation

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Future Developments, Continuous Investment & Industry Contribution

• Development of ESP system
  • Benchmarking techniques development
  • Simple vehicle modelling.
               

• FTire Characterisation Feasibility Study
  • Successful and awaiting resource to pursue strong business stream.

• Development of enhanced ADAMS damper and bushing models
  • Hysteresis effects
  • Design lead damper tuning
              

• Development of Human-in-Loop
  • Steering system simulator to bring subjective development to virtual prototypes Imminent purchase of OXTS    
                               RT3000 GPS Inertial navigation system.

• Stand & Paper presented on Active Damper and ESP Research last May at Vehicle Dynamics Expo 2006

          Germany.

• Technical Partnership with Software company VI/Grade
  • Highly advanced parametric modelling.

• Tools and Techniques continuously under review; Major ISO Standards contributors.

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