FSAE Suspension System Survey

[hlyh1230]

Hi, we're from UniMAP Automotive Racing Team(UniART) Malaysia conducting a survey regarding FSAE suspension system for our project.
Could you do us a favor by completing the survey?it's all closed-ended questions,so just tick the answers coz we really need more numbers of feedback~
*[for the last question,just select any figure will do]
Thx a lot!

http://kwiksurveys.com/s.asp?sid=oua3gd7ur0vc0c3247265

[mep]

What are you hoping to gain from this survey?

[hlyh1230]

i'm hoping to get the output of the survey to be inserted into house of quality for design consideration...
i originally wanted to put on open ended questions,but it seemed like only premium account can have that feature..
I'd like to hear opinion from guys here....

[hlyh1230]

can anyone here help me to complete this survey?really appreciate it....

[hlyh1230]

no one's here?

[Tim.Wright]

You can't design a suspension using survey results. You need to go an do some engineering. Have you looked at the TTC data yet?

[Jersey Tom]

I looked at it... don't even know how to begin answering it (not to mention I can't even answer the location question accurately with the given choices ).

And to Tim's point I don't see how this can be of any use anyway. Public surveys should not be driving any of your design.

[Greg Locock]

In a funny sort of way he's actually doing the right thing. In theory FSAE designs are supposed to form the basis of a lightweight racing series, so asking potential customers what they want isn't really a bad idea.

However, question 3 was the first that had me stumped.

Having said that in real cars or indeed solar cars the suspension is not designed by asking around. Using an HoQ to select the best architecture is not in itself a bad approach but you do need experienced team members to make the subjective calls, and he who sets the weightings has more power than anybody else.

If this is a new FSAE team then getting a car to the start line and completing the event is of far greater importance than finessing suspension architectures, and the easiest one to get near-enough right first time is unequal arm double wishbone.

[Tim.Wright]

Yea, I see where you are coming from, but I think a HoQ is ONLY a useful tool if you have a very good understanding between the technical characteristics and the customer requirements. From reading the questions in the survey it seems that this is not the case.