FSU05/07/24- Upper Control Arm Assembly

Model Version: 8.0

Material: AISI 4130 steel, annealed at 865C

Validation: June 14th 2023 -

• Screw holes fixed axially and radially

• Bearing housing fixed radially

• Bearing Housing virtual wall on both sides

Fx & Fy:

• Fx and Fy are first combined into a single force using trigonometry to determine the magnitude and angle the force acts at, called Fxy

  • Smile Khatri has a good example in their UCA report from the week of may 29th

• Fxy applied at the inside of the UCA Bearing Adapter part, normal to a plane that is at the angle of the applied force

  • The force is only applied to one half of the cylindrical face

Fz:

• Applied normal to the UCA Bearing Adapter part, on the side in which the direction of the force is acting

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