This paper provides an overview of the latest advances in road vehicle suspension design, dynamics, and control, together with the authors' perspectives, in the context of vehicle ride, handling, and stability. The general aspects of road vehicle suspension dynamics and design are discussed, followed by descriptions of road-roughness excitations with a particular emphasis on road potholes. Passive suspension system designs and their effects on road vehicle dynamics and stability are presented in terms of in-plane and full-vehicle arrangements. Controlled suspensions are also reviewed and discussed. The paper concludes with some potential research topics, in particular those associated with the development of hybrid and electric vehicles.

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Editors’ perspectives: road vehicle suspension design, dynamics, and control

The paper tackles the theme of evaluating dynamic load increases that the vehicle transfers to the road pavement, due to the generation of vibration produced by surface irregularities. The study starts from the generation, according to the ISO 8608 Standard, of different road roughness profiles characterized by different damage levels. In particular, the first four classes provided by ISO 8608 were considered. Subsequently, the force exchanged between the pavement and three typologies of vehicles (car, bus and truck) has been assessed by implementing, in Matlab®, the QCM (Quarter Car Model) characterized by a quarter vehicle mass and variable speed from 20 to 100 km/h. The analysis allows determining the amount of dynamic overload that causes the vibrational stress. The paper shows how this dynamic overload may be predetermined as a function of the pavements surface degradation. This is a useful reference for the purposes of designing and maintaining road pavements.

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs12544-013-0127-8.pdf

The vibrations induced by surface irregularities in road pavements – a Matlab ® approach

Ing. Holger Steeb, Dr.-Ing. Fehmi Cirak, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ekkehard Ramm, University of Stuttgart, Department of Civil Engineering, Institute of Structural ...

Zeitschrift für angewandte mathematik und mechanik

Optimisation of dynamic vibration absorbers to minimise kinetic energy and maximise internal power dissipation

This study focuses on the statistical description and analysis of road surface irregularities that are essential for heavy-vehicle fatigue assessment. Three new road profile models are proposed: a homogenous Laplace moving average process, a non-homogenous Laplace process and a hybrid model that combines Gaussian and Laplace modelling. These are compared with the classical homogenous Gaussian process as well as with the non-homogenous Gaussian model that represents the road surface as a homogenous Gaussian process with Motor Industry Research Association spectrum enhanced by randomly placed and shaped irregularities. The five models are fitted to eight measured road surfaces and their accuracy and efficiency are discussed.

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Models for road surface roughness

En forandrad behovsbild gor att det finns anledning att se over den information som samlas in vid tillstandsmatning av vagar. Behovet att underhalla det befintliga vagnatet okar av flera skal. Traf ...

Nya mått; ett underlag för en utvecklingsstrategi inom området vägytemätningar

The condition of the national coated road network is measured annually in Sweden and Finland. The measuring technology has been unchanged over a long period of time, which has its benefits. As the ...

New technology for road surface measurement : transverse profile and rut depth

Vattenplaning ar ett allmant kant begrepp och en fruktad situation forbilforaren. Att det finns likheter mellan smorjsituationen i ett kullager ochvattenplaning ar daremot kanske forvanande. Denna ...

Elastohydrodynamiska aspekter på vattenplaning : en litteraturstudie

The work presented in this study created a numerical method for the investigation of water-lubricated soft elastohydrodynamic (EHD) conjunctions as it relates to car tire aquaplaning. The specific subject of this investigation is viscous aquaplaning on thin fluid layer, with water acting as a lubricant on the rubber. A number of assumption used in the study include: a single perfect smooth tire; a perfectly smooth and infinitely stiff road surface; a very thin water film; no mass inertia results; pure water lubrication. The above asumptions allowed applying advanced numerical methods originally developed for the lubrication theory to the aquaplaning of a pneumatic tire on a thin layer of water. The results obtained showed no fluid film separating the surfaces in the test velocities.

Elastohydrodynamic aspects on the tyre-pavement contact at aquaplaning

Pa uppdrag av Trafikverket har VTI gjort ett arbete med att utveckla och foresla matt som pa ett battre satt beskriver skador eller felaktigt konstruerade vagavsnitt utifran data insamlade med vagy ...

Peter Andren

Papers

Nya mått; ett underlag för en utvecklingsstrategi inom området vägytemätningar

New technology for road surface measurement : transverse profile and rut depth

Elastohydrodynamiska aspekter på vattenplaning : en litteraturstudie

Elastohydrodynamic aspects on the tyre-pavement contact at aquaplaning

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