Lightweight Innovative Flexible Technology (LIFT)

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LIFT (Lightweight Innovative Flexible Technology) is an exciting one year feasibility project that will investigate acompletely new and highly disruptive lightweight automotive suspension system concept. The project partnerswill make use of the latest materials and structures to combine the necessary elasticity and damping propertieswith durability and wheel control within a significantly simplified system. Eliminating discrete suspensioncomponents and developing an integrated system will provide superior performance and deliver considerableweight and cost savings.The project partners, Simpact, Ariel and University of Warwick, will adopt an advanced CAE modellingapproach, coupled with correlation against real-world road and track data for a baseline vehicle, providing theability to deliver rapid, validated design iterations. On completion of the project the virtual prototypedemonstrating the feasibility will be progressed into a physical prototype for road testing.