Design of a Stroke Dependent Damper for the Front Axle Suspension of a Truck Using Multibody System Dynamics and Numerical Optimization

Vehicle System Dynamics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 85-101

  Etman, L F P ^a   Vermeulen, R C N ^a,b   Van Heck, J G A M ^c   Schoofs, A J G ^a   Van Campen, D H ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c DAF Trucks   (Netherlands)

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EID: 1842844794     PISSN: 00423114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/vesd.38.2.85.5618     Document Type: Article

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