A vehicle on elastic suspensions may be modelled as a system made by a certain number of rigid bodies connected with each other by mechanisms of various kinds and by a set of massless springs and dampers simulating the suspensions. A vehicle with four wheels can be modelled as a system with 10 degrees of freedom, six for the body and one for each wheel. This holds for any type of suspension, if the motion of the wheels due to the compliance of the system constraining the motion of the suspensions (longitudinal and transversal compliance of the suspensions) is neglected.


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    Title :

    Multibody Modelling


    Additional title:

    Mechanical Engineering Series


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    The Automotive Chassis ; Chapter : 30 ; 627-694


    Publication date :

    2019-12-18


    Size :

    68 pages





    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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