FURTHER DEVELOPMENT IN RIDE QUALITY ASSESSMENT

Internationally, a growing concern has developed and widespread disagreement has occurred over the present methods for quantitatively describing and assessing the effects of vehicle vibrations on humans, and over the short- and the long- term effects of vibrations on drivers and occupants of heavy trucks, agricultural and earthmoving equipment, and military vehicles. None of the present methods is completely satisfactory; in fact, most criteria were developed for low-level boulevard rides and are highly suspect when applied to the several vibrational levels conducted in earthmoving and military-type operations.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This article is from Proceedings of the International Conference on the Performance of Off-Road Vehilces and Machines (8th). Volume 1. Held at Cambridge England on August 5-11, 1984, AD-A148 635, p433-449.
• Corporate Authors:

  International Society for Terrain-Vehicle Systems

  Box 4824, Duke Station
  Durham, NC  United States  27706
• Authors:
  • Murphy NR Jr
• Publication Date: 1984-8

Media Info

• Pagination: 17 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accuracy; Comfort; Methodology; Motor vehicles; Quantitative analysis; Riding qualities; Vehicle occupants; Vibration
• Uncontrolled Terms: Quantifying
• Subject Areas: Highways; Passenger Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00394890
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 31 1986 12:00AM