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- Title
Analysis of a special purpose vehicle's behaviour after an edge drop-off onto a soft shoulder.
- Authors
Wach, W.; Prochowski, L.
- Abstract
The article concerns the dynamics of a four-axle 20 ton special purpose vehicle in the driver's panicky defensive manoeuvre resulting from edge drop-off of wheels onto a soft shoulder. A calculation model in the PC-Crash software environment has been developed to include the complex mechanism of the soft soil response to the wheel movement. The analysis of the results indicates the danger manifested by strong wheels vibrations, instantaneous change of vehicle steerability characteristics and a high rate of increase of the yaw angle and vehicle pitch during braking with steered wheels turned. The calculations indicate an extremely adverse effect of the phase of vehicle oversteer which in the analysed motion of the vehicle lasts over 1.5 s. The calculations prove that in such a short time the driver has very little chance of any practical response to the non-typical behaviour of the vehicle which otherwise is, in general, understeered.
- Subjects
AUTOMOBILE drivers; TRAFFIC safety; VIBRATION (Mechanics); STEERING gear; AUTOMOBILE brakes; ATTITUDE (Psychology)
- Publication
International Journal of Automotive Technology, 2017, Vol 18, Issue 1, p55
- ISSN
1229-9138
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12239-017-0006-8