Side door closing effort: a simulink model to estimate closing effort and its robustness

摘要

Because the car door is one of the first links between the customer and his vehicle, side door-closing difficulty is a critical customer requirement. This service, involving complex parts interactions, can only be evaluated through a complete physical or numerical system. The Matlab application presented here is useful to evaluate the behaviour of a door while being closed by a customer, and to estimate the system robustness. Therefore, this tool can be used during mass production to analyse the roots of an insufficient performance and to propose solutions. It can also be used during the product development phase to deploy the customer requirement and to help designers in getting specifications that are more robust.