% ME 106/227 % Spring Quarter 2002 % Script for Assignment #3 Problem 2 % % Sample script for calculating the geometry of a double % wishbone suspension as the vehicle rolls and plotting % these results. % % This script calls wishbone.m and draw_wishbone.m which, % in turn, call fourbart.m and fourbart4.m. These two % subroutines handle the four-bar linkage solution for the % suspension geometry. % % Step 1 - Enter the coordinates of the right side suspension % link points on the car relative to the car center point % y and z values for upper control arm attachment point ruarmyc = -45; ruarmzc = 22; % y and z values for lower control arm attachment point rlarmyc = -33; rlarmzc = -22; % Step 2 - Enter the lengths of the suspension links % Lower control arm r2=39; % Upper control arm r4=19; % Distance between the outboard ball joints r3=50.6; % Distance from lower ball joint to the tire contact point r5 = 16.6; % Step 3 - Enter the following values for plotting purposes % Height and width of box used to represent car body hcarbox = 50; wcarbox = 100; % Angle between tire vertical axis and kingpin axis tirekpanglel = -9; tirekpangler = 9; % Scrub radius scrubr = 2; % Height and width of parallelogram used to represent tire tireh = 61; tirew = 21.5; % Step 4 - Enter the height of the car center point and % the roll about that point then solve and plot carcenterroll = 0*pi/180; zcarcenter = (44)*cos((pi/180)*carcenterroll); % Solve for kinematics of the suspension datavector = wishbone(ruarmyc,ruarmzc,rlarmyc,rlarmzc,r2,r3,r4,r5,zcarcenter,carcenterroll); % Plot the suspension properties draw_wishbone(datavector,hcarbox,wcarbox,tireh,tirew,scrubr,tirekpangler,tirekpanglel); hold; % This is now the place for you to calculate the roll % center location and plot it on the same plot as the % suspension geometry % After you have finished with this, release the plot hold;