The assessment of the ride quality of a truck-full trailer combination

Heavy Vehicle Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 3--4, 1998, Pages 208-235

  Wang, Bor Tsuen ^a   Hu, Po I ^a  

^a NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Heavy vehicles; Ride comfort; Tractor and trailer; Vehicle model

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DYNAMIC RESPONSE; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; RIDING QUALITIES; TIRES; TRACTORS (AGRICULTURAL); VEHICLE SUSPENSIONS;

STATIONARY ERGODIC GAUSSIAN RANDOM ROAD PROFILE; TRAILER RIDE MODEL;

TRUCK TRAILERS;

EID: 0032308980     PISSN: 13517848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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