Karting vehicle design phases with a special focus on testing of vehicle performance and application of cae technology in vehicle design

Abstract

Vehicle design is a complex process characterized by a series of activities in order to obtain the required performance of vehicles that dictate the market. By analyzing the experiences of various companies and authors dealing with vehicle design, an overview of the design of karting vehicles was performed in this paper. Based on the analysis of available literature, the authors gave their own example of the phases to be guided during the design of karting vehicles. As noted above, it is very important that the newly designed vehicle fulfills its specific market requirements to be dominant on the same market. Based on this, the authors of this paper, in addition to the design phase of karting vehicles, also gave principles for analyzing the performance of karting vehicles in terms of tractive effort characteristics, safety and stability performance, which are corroborated by the examples. An example of the testing of a virtual newly design karting vehicle using CAE technology was also shown as another possibility of testing a new model, i.e. tests of the influence of air pressure on vehicle body and ergonomic tests of the karting vehicle were carried out.