Ride control - a two state suspension design for cabs and seats

Vehicle System Dynamics

Volumn 33, Issue SUPPL., 2000, Pages 578-589

  Tong, Rick T ^a   Amirouche, Farid ^a   Palkovics, László ^b  

^a 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

^b BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE SUSPENSIONS; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DYNAMIC RESPONSE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; RIDING QUALITIES; TRACTORS (TRUCK); TRUCK TRAILERS; VEHICLE SPRINGS;

RIDE CONTROL;

AUTOMOBILE SEATS;

EID: 0033750844     PISSN: 00423114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00423114.1999.12063113     Document Type: Article

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