Trace engineering

Sometimes I get suggestions from some of my customers for articles, and often they are very clever ideas indeed. As a case in point, one ChassisSim customer – Adelaide, Australia-based damper company Supashock – suggested I write a piece on ChassisSim’s advanced data logging channels, and how this pertains to racecar design and structural analysis. Given that this, and the use of in-depth data analysis, is one of ChassisSim’s unsung strengths, I agreed this was a subject that deserves to be explored in some depth.

ChassisSim boasts a fully transient nature combined with a plethora of data channels. If you combine all this with the fact that it also uses a full multi-body vehicle dynamic model you will understand that you can get an excellent snapshot of what the car is doing, so you can then make