Effect of frame flexibility on the ride vibration of trucks

Computers and Structures

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 709-713

  Ibrahim, I M ^a   Crolla, D A ^a   Barton, D C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC RESPONSE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES; MACHINE VIBRATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RIDING QUALITIES; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; VEHICLE SUSPENSIONS;

FRAME FLEXIBILITY; LAGRANGE'S EQUATIONS; MODAL SUPERPOSITION THEORY;

TRUCKS;

EID: 0040754047     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0045-7949(95)00198-P     Document Type: Article

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