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A generalized quarter car modelling approach with frame flexibility and other nonlocal effects. (English) Zbl 1379.70016

Summary: Quarter-car models are popular, simple, unidirectional in kinematics and enable quicker computation than full-car models. However, they do not account for three other wheels and their suspensions, nor for the frame’s flexibility, mass distribution and damping. Here we propose a generalized quarter-car modelling approach, incorporating both the frame as well as other-wheel ground contacts. Our approach is linear, uses Laplace transforms, involves vertical motions of key points of interest and has intermediate complexity with improved realism. Our model uses baseline suspension parameters and responses to step force inputs at suspension attachment locations on the frame. Subsequently, new suspension parameters and unsprung mass compliance parameters can be incorporated, for which relevant formulas are given. The final expression for the transfer function, between ground displacement and body point response, is approximated using model order reduction. A simple Matlab code is provided that enables quick parametric studies. Finally, a parametric study and wheel hop analysis are performed for a realistic numerical example. Frequency and time domain responses obtained show clearly the effects of other wheels, which are outside the scope of usual quarter-car models. The displacements obtained from our model are compared against those of the usual quarter-car model and show ways in which predictions of the quarter-car model include errors that can be reduced in our approach. In summary, our approach has intermediate complexity between that of a full-car model and a quarter-car model, and offers corresponding intermediate detail and realism.

MSC:

70B15 Kinematics of mechanisms and robots

Software:

Adams; Matlab
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