INTRODUCTION TO ADVANCED VEHICLE SUSPENSION DESIGN

Variable suspension and damping systems of motor vehicles can be optimally controlled in respect to changing priorities dependent on different momentary operating conditions. Level-controlled air suspension systems with activatable and deactivatable backup volumes and dampers, equipped with pneumatically or electrically controllable hydraulic valves, permit extensive variations of running gear properties. Gains are thus achieved both in terms of vehicle safety and also vehicle comfort in comparison to the conventional design of the running gear. The weight and driving speed can be used to control the running gear properties without feedback. Active suspension systems can produce forces between axles and vehicle body with the aid of actuators. Energy-saving active variants of pneumatic or hydropneumatic suspension systems influence the vehicle body actively only at low frequencies.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • "Heavy Vehicle Systems," a special series of the "International Journal of Vehicle Design," features this issue on Vehicle-Road and Vehicle-Bridge Interaction, Third Engineering Foundation Conference, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, June 5-10, 1994.
• Corporate Authors:

  Inderscience Enterprises Limited

  World Trade Center Building, 110 Avenue Louis Casai
  Geneva,   Switzerland 
• Authors:
  • von Glasner, E C
  • Povel, R
  • Schutzner, P
• Publication Date: 1997

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 422-437
• Serial:
  • International Journal of Heavy Vehicle Systems
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Limited
  • ISSN: 1744-232X
  • EISSN: 1741-5152
  • Serial URL: http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=IJHVS

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Active suspension systems; Damping (Physics); Ride quality; Suspension systems; Technological innovations
• Subject Areas: Highways; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00740010
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 21 1997 12:00AM