Ride and Handling
Day 1 Tuesday 22 June 2010 - Morning session
Principal and benefits of several torque vectoring concepts for improved vehicle performance characteristics
Bosch Engineering GmbH – Peter van Vliet, system engineer
Identification of tire lateral force characteristics from handling a data and functional suspension model
Centro Ricerche Fiat – Marco Pesce, vehicle dynamics specialist
New facilities for crosswind sensibility analysis at IDIADA
Applus+ IDIADA – Jonathan Webb, vehicle dynamics manager
Advanced testing and simulation techniques in ride and handling body deformation
LMS Italiana - Paolo di Carlo, engineering services chassis team leader
Electric Active Roll Control (EARC)
Cranfield University – Ganesh Mohan, MSc student and Jerome Dentzer, MSc automotive product engineering
The Nürburgring and its effect on the development of sports cars
SBA Motor Sports – Shields Bergstrom, professional race driver
Suspension
Day 1 Tuesday 22 June 2010 - Afternoon session
The closed air suspension system of the Porsche Panamera
Porsche AG & Continental AG – Claus Blattner, head of development, suspension systems and Andreas Nessel, head CC air spring modules, division chassis & safety
Simulating advanced passive damping technologies
BWI Group – Dr Janusz Gołdasz, simulation engineer
Optimisation of vehicle handling performance by increasing the ARB effectiveness
Tatamotors Ltd – Arun Prakash, manager
Implementation of an active suspension system in a prototype vehicle – ultimate comfort and safety (ACOCAR)
Tenneco - Koen Reybrouck, global ride control technology director
Multi-domain vehicle dynamics simulation with Dymola
Audi AG and Modelon GmbH – Johannes Gerl, general manager
Application of surface modifications and coatings in suspension systems
Sulzer Metaplas GmbH – Thomas auf dem Brinke, project manager
An experimental study as reference for magneto-rheological damper modelling and control
Tecnologico de Monterrey – Prof. Jorge de Jesus Lozoya-Santos, research assistant