While developing an amphibious track vehicle, SwRI engineers designed and produced a prototype suspension system that retracts during high-speed, water-borne operation and uses a compressible fluid as the spring element for a smooth ride on land.
	SwRI developed an active large-vehicle suspension system that recovered 75% of the actuation energy through regeneration while reducing suspension stiffness and body pitch and roll by half.

Many vehicle integration projects require the relocation of powertrain components, which affects vehicle weight distribution and alters suspension characteristics.

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has developed a vehicle suspension software program that:

• Models springs and damping components

• Determines vehicle response with:

  • Road configuration

  • Load

  • Turning maneuvers

Large-Vehicle Suspension System

SwRI developed an active large-vehicle suspension system that recovered 75% of the actuation energy through regeneration while reducing suspension stiffness and body pitch and roll by half.
 

For more information about suspension system capabilities at SwRI or how you can contract with SwRI, please contact Alan Montemayor at amontemayor@swri.org or (210) 522-6940.