The effect of vehicle active safety systems is subject to the friction force arising from the contact of tires and the road surface. Therefore, an adequate knowledge of the tire-road friction coefficient is of great importance to achieve a good performance of these control systems. This paper presents a tire-road friction coefficient estimation method for an advanced vehicle configuration, four...

1 Problem Discuss the motion of an unbalanced tire that rolls without slipping on a horizontal surface, subject to conservation of energy. In what sense(s) can this system be said to contain " hidden momentum? " 2 Solution 2.1 The Motion We consider the tire to be a hoop of radius a and mass M that is unbalanced due to an additional mass m at some fixed point on the rim, as shown in the figure ...

A control scheme for emergency braking of vehicles is designed. The tire/road friction is described by a LuGre dynamic friction model. The control system output is the pressure in the master cylinder of the brake system. The controller utilizes estimated states for a feedback control law that achieves a near maximum deceleration. The state observer is designed using linear matrix inequality (LM...

In this paper, we describe a hydraulic system design and vehicle dynamic modeling for development of tire roller traction, an essential aspect in the system analysis of tire rollers. Generally, tire rollers are one of the most useful types of machines employed in road construction, technically applied to many construction fields. We also conceptualize a new hydraulic and driving system as well ...

Tire characteristics and behavior are of great importance in vehicle dynamics since the forces transmitted in the tire-road contact are the main contributors to global vehicle performance. Several research groups have focused on the study and modeling of tires. Some of the most important factors that need to be known are tread characteristics and pressure distribution in the tire-ground contact...

Increasing interest has been given to swirl brakes as a means of reducing destabilizing rotordynamic.forces due to leakage flows in new high speed rocket turbopumps. Although swirl brakes have been used successfully in practice {such as with the Space Shuttle HPOTP), no experimental tests until now have been pegormed to demonstrate their beneficial effect over a range of leakage flow rates. The...

The majority of vehicle dynamometer test rigs available in the market are constructed rigidly, which can vehicles with a very narrow range specifications, so there is need for provision load compensation to simulate order different & enhance quality measured results. fabricated twin roller arrangement improves tire-roller contact and balancing system inertia accuracy results during testing ...

This paper discusses the development of a deformable terrain database to be used in a co-simulation environment with a multibody dynamics vehicle model. The implementation of the model includes a general tire-terrain traction model which is modular to allow for any type of tire model that supports the Standard Tire Interface[1] to operate on the terrain. Rather than utilizing empirical terramec...

Waste tires have excellent mechanical performance and have been used as reinforcing material in geotechnical engineering; however, their interface properties are poorly understood. To further our knowledge, this paper examines the pull-out characteristics of waste tire strips in a compacted sand, together with uniaxial and biaxial geogrids also tested under the same conditions. The analysis of ...

In this paper, we focus on the frequent glitches of general family cars. Based on the Neural Network theory and combining with the Micro-chip processor technology, we design an expert system-‘‘Integrated Cars Repairing Tools” (ICRT) and the size of the proposed ICRT is quite small and achieves the following attractive functions: (1) Portable Electric-jack, (2) Electric Tire-pressure-meter, (3) ...