This paper introduces newly developed suspension system for the all-new SantaFe model of Hyundai Motor Company which will be on the market this year. The new suspension of the all-new SantaFe has been....
This study investigates two recent hypotheses on the cornering load sensitivity of the race tyre. It is found that the contact heat is the major factor affecting cornering load sensitivity according t....
Tires flatspot when they remain loaded without rolling for a period of time. When the tires are rolled again, the initial flatspot decays and vanishes or stabilizes to a much smaller magnitude (called....
Tire cornering forces are often measured in the laboratory on a high-friction surface and little information exists on the nature of cornering on other surfaces. Thus, the impact of winter roads on ve....
Tires are a key factor determining vehicle NVH performance. Tire models are usually reduced to linear modal models in the frequency domain even though the tire behaves nonlinearly in vibration and imp....
Coil spring force line control is an important aspect of spring design for coil-over-shock suspension type applications, such as MacPherson strut and coil-over-shock trailing arm applications, from th....
The electric active stabilizer suspension system, which can reduce roll angle, has been developed. This paper presents the configuration, function and effect of the system. The electric active stabili....
This paper introduces a riding comfort quarter model featuring unsprung mass pitching, and explains its mechanisms for reducing disturbance applied from a road surface by the featured unsprung mass pi....
This paper introduces a newly developed suspension system for new Elantra model of Hyundai Motor Company which will be on the market this year. The new chassis of Elantra has been developed to give mo....
An optical method based on white light refraction and reflection is described for the measurement of normal contact stress between “soft” structures and a rigid transparent surface. The objective is t....
The prime factor controlling vehicles direction and speed, in addition to braking distance, is skid resistance which is highly related to the characteristics of the pavements and especially to surface....
Indoor or laboratory testing of tire tread wear offers many advantages over vehicle fleet testing. Advances in test equipment capabilities and the technologies for defining and simulating meaningful t....
Until now, old-fashioned industrial x-ray technology providers didn't solve their customer's real problem: increasing productivity by preventing defects instead of finding defects that were produced. ....
This paper presents an empirical-based model which explains the force-deflection characteristics of disc stacks commonly used in automotive suspension dampers. The model provides tools for comparing d....
A Magneto-Rheological (MR) Fluid Semiactive Suspension System was tested on a Stryker vehicle, Infantry Carrier Variant (ICV), to determine the performance improvements compared to a standard ICV Stry....
A method of synthesis of rear wheels multi-link suspension of one degree of freedom has been proposed. Using virtual mechanism the characteristics of wheel orientation and wheel centre position were d....
The MacPherson strut is widely used in the automotive industry. Many investigations regarding the minimization of damper friction force have been published; however, this is not the case with vehicle ....
A hydraulic steering pump system will be considered in this report. The objective is to investigate the turbulent and compressible flow effects in a specific power steering pump using computational fl....
This paper is on the application of electric power assisted steering and yaw stability control to a light commercial vehicle. An active steering system is developed and used for both purposes. Steerin....
In this research, we investigate the methods for controlling moment of rotational inertia in the electric power steering (EPS) system. We first look at the effects of moment of rotational inertia on c....
