Axiomatic redesign : using Axiomatic Design to improve vehicle performance of the steering and suspension system

• Main Author: Peliks, Robert Bilgor.
• Other Authors: Nam P. Suh.
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2005
• Subjects: Mechanical Engineering.
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7992

Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2003. === Includes bibliographical references (leaf 32). === Every year, automobile manufacturers strive to improve upon their existing designs. Every year, they make small adjustments and try to optimize their designs. Unfortunately, this 'optimization' is often a compromise between multiple components and thus the individual components are not working as well as they could be. Axiomatic Design is a methodology which attempts to avoid these relations between components. By fragmenting the assembly into smaller subcomponents, we can identify and sever these couplings. I used axiomatic design to help redesign a coupled automobile steering/suspension system. === by Beto Peliks. === S.B.