Ride behaviour of trucks transporting liquids

Heavy Vehicle Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 3--4, 1998, Pages 261-276

  Ibrahim, I M ^a   El Nashar, M A ^a   Younes, Y K ^a  

^a Helwan University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Liquid cargo; Nonlinear system; Ride behaviour; Slosh; Trucks

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LIQUID SLOSHING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; RIDING QUALITIES; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VISCOUS FLOW;

VERTICAL HARMONIC EXCITATION;

TANK TRUCKS;

EID: 0032318423     PISSN: 13517848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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