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.


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    Title :

    Steering Kinematics


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Steering Handbook ; Chapter : 4 ; 63-90


    Publication date :

    2016-06-25


    Size :

    28 pages




    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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