Essentials of Vehicle Dynamics

which can be described, for linear axle characteristics, as

$F_y=Y_{\beta }·\beta =-(C_{\alpha 1}+C_{\alpha 2})·\beta$

The value of x_NS follows from equilibrium of moments around the vehicle CoG:

$x_{\mathrm{NS}}=\frac{a·F_{y1}(\beta )-b·F_{y2}(\beta )}{F_{y1}(\beta )+F_{y2}(\beta )}$

In case of linear axle characteristics,

$x_{\mathrm{NS}}=\frac{a·C_{\alpha 1}-b·C_{\alpha 2}}{C_{\alpha 1}+C_{\alpha 2}}=\frac{N_{\beta }}{Y_{\beta }}$ (5.43)

(5.43)

Let us investigate what occurs for linear axles if the neutral steer point ...