There are different basic methods how to control the direction of a car purposefully. Wheeled cars with pneumatic tyres may have integrated Swinging beam, buckling or axle-pivot steeringAxle-pivot steering. The first two typesTypes suffer the disadvantage that their footprint shrinks when steering and interfering forces will act on a lever arm that corresponds to half a tyre track. Moreover, either the front or rear tyres or all the tyres together may be steered. For high-speed cars, however, a third design is favoured: axle-pivot steeringAxle-pivot steering on the front axle. Therefore, only this type will be considered here. The rotational axis of the Wheel carrier, or “Stub axle”, on the wheel suspension (e.g., a “kingpin”) is usually steady when the car is steered (pure rotation of the tyre trunk); however, there are now many cars whose suspensions feature a variableVariable (“virtual”) axis of rotation.
Steering Kinematics
Steering Handbook ; Kapitel : 4 ; 63-90
2016-06-25
28 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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