The effect on trailer stability of hitchpoint lateral stiffness and damping is examined by means of a simplified model. The model used in the stability analysis is a one degree of freedom nonholonomic dynamical system and yields a third order linear differential equation. Trailer stability criteria are developed, and stability charts are presented which depict the stability criteria in terms of nondimensional parameters. The analysis shows that increasing hitchpoint lateral stiffness does not improve trailer stability whereas increasing hitchpoint lateral damping is much more important to trailer stability. In addition, the importance of hitchpoint loading to trailer stability is shown.


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    Titel :

    Effect of Hitchpoint Lateral Stiffness on Trailer Stability


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Beteiligte:
    Robe, T. R. (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    1979 Automotive Engineering Congress and Exposition ; 1979



    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1979-02-01




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch


    Schlagwörter :



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