AUTOMOBILE RIDE QUALITY EXPERIMENTS CORRELATED TO 150-WEIGHTED CRITERIA

As part of an overall study to evaluate the usefulness of ride quality criteria for the design of improved ground transportation systems an experiment was conducted involving subjective and objective measurements of ride vibrations found in an automobile riding over roadways of various roughness. Correlation of the results led to some very significant relationships between passenger rating and ride accelerations. The latter were callapsed using a frequency-weighted root mean square measure of the random vibration. The results suggest the form of a design criterion giving the relationship between ride vibration and acceptable automobile ride quality. Further the ride criterion is expressed in terms that relate to rides with which most people are familiar. The design of the experiment, the ride vibration data acquisition, the concept of frequency weighting and the correlations found between subjective and objective measurements are presented. (a) /TRRL/

  • Supplemental Notes:
    • This paper was presented to the 1975 Ride Quality Symposium, November, 1975.
  • Corporate Authors:

    Taylor & Francis

    4 Park Square, Milton Park
    Abingdon,   United Kingdom  OX14 4RN
  • Authors:
    • Healey, A J
    • Young, R K
    • SMITH, C C
  • Publication Date: 1976-10

Language

  • English

Media Info

  • Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
  • Pagination: 385 p.
  • Serial:

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 00156496
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
  • Report/Paper Numbers: Analytic
  • Files: ITRD, TRIS
  • Created Date: Sep 20 1977 12:00AM