Abstract
An automotive suspension supports the vehicle body on the axles. A “full car” model of a suspension with 7 rigid body degrees of freedom is shown in Figure 10-1. The vehicle body is represented by the “sprung mass” m while the mass due to the axles and tires are represented by the “unsprung” masses m u1, m u2, m u3 and m u4. The springs and dampers between the sprung and unsprung mass represent the vehicle suspension. The vertical stiffness of each of the 4 tires are represented by the springsK t1,K t2,K t3andK t4
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Rajamani, R. (2012). Design and Analysis of Passive Automotive Suspensions. In: Vehicle Dynamics and Control. Mechanical Engineering Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1433-9_10
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