A novel approach to vehicle dynamics using the theory of a cosserat point and its application to collision analyses of platooning vehicles

Vehicle System Dynamics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 85-108

  Varadi, Peter C ^a   Lo, Gwo Jeng ^b   O'Reilly, Oliver M ^b   Papadopoulos, Panayiotis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMOBILE SIMULATORS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

COSSERAT POINT THEORY; PLATOONING VEHICLES;

GROUND VEHICLES;

EID: 0032646739     PISSN: 00423114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/vesd.32.1.85.4227     Document Type: Article

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