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02-11-2006 #1Registered User
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Adjustable Blade Anti-Sway Arms ???
Hello everyone. Just wondering if anyone could help me out here. I am an automotive engineering degree student and as part of a design project I would like to model adjustable blade sway arms in conjunction with a interchangable hollow sway bar (the type similar to those used in stock car racing) for a touring car application. To give you and idea of what I am talking about I have found only a few actual applications of this design on the web and have included the links below. Now I know it may be all "theoretical" but I have to treat the project as something real and design a working solution with real calculations, data etc. Preferably I would be interested in sway bars that are adjustable by the technician during a pitstop i.e. have to be adjustable in seconds.
Does anyone have any experience with adjustable blade type sway bar arms? Can anyone offer any help, advice or recommend literature on this type of anti-sway system. Any help offered would be greatly appreciated.
http://www.jaytorborg.com/anti-roll_bars.htm
http://www.hrpworld.com/index.cfm?fo...action=product
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02-11-2006 #2Yes they do work.
It is not just a matter of studing the sway bar in a touring car aplication. A sway bar is a tool. A tool does not know what it is being used for. You need to have an understanding of the materials involved to understand how it works. Being an automotive engineering student a good reference of metalergy would do you good. That would give you more insite in to how the adjustable sway bar works. But hear is a quick discription of how it works. The main tube is your maximum posible stifness. The blades are shaped in that fashion to put mor give into the system or soften the efects of the bar. The blade starts in a vertical posision or on edge, that is applying +100% of the sway bars power to the suspension. As you rotate the blade to a flat position the material gets thinner and adds flex to the system ther for reducing the overall strength of the bar being used. Some of the vertical forces being applied to it from the suspension are absorbed into the blades. You can not actually adjust the sway bar itself. You cannot adjust the metal of the bar so you have to change the amount of force that gets to the bar.
Someone else may come along and say I am completely wrong and I may be. I am not an engineer by any meens. Every thing I stated is from my own first hand expieriance and self studies. I have been racing since I was a little kid. It does not matter how big or little the peices are physics and math don't change.Dog will Hunt
02-11-2006 #3