By vehicle suspension we mean a mechanism that links the wheel directly to the body or to a frame attached to the it.
Because a rigid vehicle with more than three wheels is a hyperstatic system, it is necessary for the vehicle structure to be flexible enough to allow the simultaneous contact of the wheels with the ground. Alternatively the wheels may be connected to a rigid body through a deformable system, the suspension. This second solution is adopted by most vehicles, while the first, widely found in horse carriages in the past, is now used on particularly slow vehicles.
Suspensions
2009-01-01
105 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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