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Apr 26, 2012

Vehicle Train Lateral Stability Based on the Scale Model

Publication: International Conference on Transportation Engineering 2007

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The vehicle train is a complex system in which tractor and trailer interacted and coupled with each other, and the analysis on the lateral stability is related to several fields such as multi-body dynamics, rigid-flexible coupling mechanics, aerodynamics, nonlinear kinematics, electronic controllability etc. The principle of vehicle dynamics with the scale model theory was used to develop the mathematical model of the lateral stability to vehicle train, the similarity between the semi-trailer combination and the model was analyzed. Tests on snaking characteristic of the scale model of tractor-trailer were carried out at the different velocity and the structure parameters. And in this paper, the effects of use and structure parameters on the tractor-trailer lateral stability were discussed by comparing the results of the scale model test with the digital simulation. The results indicated that the mathematical simulation and scale model test simulation have the same quality so as to develop the feasibility of improving the capability of test and reverse-deducing to real tractor-trailer combination.

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International Conference on Transportation Engineering 2007
Pages: 1142 - 1147

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Published online: Apr 26, 2012

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Hongfei Liu [email protected]
Transportation college, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, China,. E-mail: [email protected]
Hongguo Xu
Transportation college, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, China
Zhiwei Guan [email protected]
Tianjin University of Technology and Education, Tianjin 300222, China. E-mail: [email protected]
Sheng Chang
Transportation college, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, China

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