TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - Generalised multi-axle vehicle handling
JO  - Vehicle system dynamics
A1  - Williams, Daniel Eugene
SP  - 149
EP  - 166
VL  - 50
IS  - 1
N2  - The familiar two-axle bicycle model and associated basic concepts of vehicle handling are reviewed and used to introduce minor changes in convention from the literature. The two-axle model is extended to a three-axle vehicle to illustrate the effectiveness of the notation combined with a simplifying mathematical identity found in the two-axle vehicle literature. A generalised model is then developed that produces dynamic equations of motion by inspection for a vehicle with an arbitrary number of steerable and non-steerable axles. Furthermore, the vehicle dynamic concepts of understeer and wheelbase are generalised and can be directly computed for various arbitrary vehicle configurations.<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 0042-3114
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00423114.2011.577225
ID  - ref1
ER  -