Road Vehicle Dynamics

Fundamentals and Modeling with MATLAB®

Georg Rill, Abel Arrieta Castro

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9780429534683
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Mechanics

Road Vehicle Dynamics: Fundamentals and Modeling with MATLAB®, Second Edition combines coverage of vehicle dynamics concepts with MATLAB v9.4 programming routines and results, along with examples and numerous chapter exercises. Improved and updated, the revised text offers new coverage of active safety systems, rear wheel steering, race car suspension systems, airsprings, four-wheel drive, mechatronics, and other topics. Based on the lead author's extensive lectures, classes, and research activities, this unique text provides readers with insights into the computer-based modeling of automobiles and other ground vehicles. Instructor resources, including problem solutions, are available from the publisher.

1

Introduction

CONTENTS

1.1Units and Quantities

1.1.1SI System

1.1.2Tire Codes

1.2Terminology

1.2.1Vehicle Dynamics

1.2.2Driver

1.2.3Vehicle

1.2.4Load

1.2.5Environment

1.3Definitions

1.3.1Coordinate Systems

1.3.2Design Position of Wheel Center

1.3.3Toe-In, Toe-Out

1.3.4Wheel Camber

1.3.5Design Position of the Wheel Rotation Axis

1.3.6Wheel Aligning Point

1.4Active Safety Systems

1.5Multibody Dynamics Tailored to Ground Vehicles

1.5.1Modeling Aspects

1.5.2Kinematics

1.5.3Equations of Motion

1.6A Quarter Car Model

1.6.1Modeling Details

1.6.2Kinematics

1.6.3Applied Forces and Torques

1.6.4Equations of Motion

1.6.5Simulation

Exercises

1.1 Units and Quantities

1.1.1 SI System

The International System of Units¹ is the world’s most widely used system of measurement. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) laid it out in ISO 31 and ISO 1000. The modern SI system will be used throughout this textbook. Common quantities, their variations, as well as conversion tables may be found in [3]. The most important physical quantities, their standardized units, as well as some old but still important units are collected in Table 1.1. The unit rad can be replaced by the numeral 1 in calculations. With the exception of hours (1 h = 3 600 s) and minutes (1 min = 60 s), decimal multiples and submultiples will form additional legal units.

TABLE 1.1
Physical quantities, common symbols, and units

Quantity	Name	Unit	SI	Relationsh...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Series Preface
• Preface
• About the Authors
• Primary Meaning of Symbols
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Road
• 3. Tire
• 4. Drive Train
• 5. Suspension System
• 6. Force Elements
• 7. Vertical Dynamics
• 8. Longitudinal Dynamics
• 9. Lateral Dynamics
• 10. Driving Behavior of Single Vehicles
• Bibliography
• Glossary
• Index