Ride comfort optimization of a city bus

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 67-75

  Eriksson, P ^a   Friberg, O ^b  

^a SCANIA CV AB Buses and Coaches ^*  (Sweden)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

RIDE COMFORT OPTIMIZATION; ROOT MEAN SQUARES (RMS);

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034242078     PISSN: 1615147X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001580050137     Document Type: Article

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