Modeling to predict rollover threat of tractor-semitrailers

Vehicle System Dynamics

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 401-414

  Hyun, Dongyoon ^a   Langari, Reza ^a,b  

^a Hyundai Kia Motors   (South Korea)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); LOADS (FORCES);

LOAD TRANSFER RATIO (LTR);

TRUCK TRAILERS;

EID: 0037481659     PISSN: 00423114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/vesd.39.6.401.14596     Document Type: Article

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