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

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