Tire and Vehicle Dynamics, 3rd Edition

Table of Contents

1. Cover Image
2. Contents
3. Title
4. Copyright
5. Exercises
6. Preface
7. Chapter 1. Tire Characteristics and Vehicle Handling and Stability
   1. 1.1 Introduction
   2. 1.2 Tire and Axle Characteristics
   3. 1.3 Vehicle Handling and Stability
8. Chapter 2. Basic Tire Modeling Considerations
   1. 2.1 Introduction
   2. 2.2 Definition of Tire Input Quantities
   3. 2.3 Assessment of Tire Input Motion Components
   4. 2.4 Fundamental Differential Equations for a Rolling and Slipping Body
   5. 2.5 Tire Models (Introductory Discussion)
9. Chapter 3. Theory of Steady-State Slip Force and Moment Generation
   1. 3.1 Introduction
   2. 3.2 Tire Brush Model
   3. 3.3 The Tread Simulation Model
   4. 3.4 Application: Vehicle Stability at Braking up to Wheel Lock
10. Chapter 4. Semi-Empirical Tire Models
    1. 4.1 Introduction
    2. 4.2 The Similarity Method
    3. 4.3 The Magic Formula Tire Model
11. Chapter 5. Non-Steady-State Out-of-Plane String-Based Tire Models
    1. 5.1 Introduction
    2. 5.2 Review of Earlier Research
    3. 5.3 The Stretched String Model
    4. 5.4 Approximations and Other Models
    5. 5.5 Tire Inertia Effects
    6. 5.6 Side Force Response to Time-Varying Load
12. Chapter 6. Theory of the Wheel Shimmy Phenomenon
    1. 6.1 Introduction
    2. 6.2 The Simple Trailing Wheel System with Yaw Degree of Freedom
    3. 6.3 Systems with Yaw and Lateral Degrees of Freedom
    4. 6.4 Shimmy and Energy Flow
    5. 6.5 Nonlinear Shimmy Oscillations
13. Chapter 7. Single-Contact-Point Transient Tire Models
    1. 7.1 Introduction
    2. 7.2 Model Development
    3. 7.3 Enhanced Nonlinear Transient Tire Model
14. Chapter 8. Applications of Transient Tire Models
    1. 8.1 Vehicle Response to Steer Angle Variations
    2. 8.2 Cornering on Undulated Roads
    3. 8.3 Longitudinal Force Response to Tire Nonuniformity, Axle Motions, and Road Unevenness
    4. 8.4 Forced Steering Vibrations
    5. 8.5 ABS Braking on Undulated Road
    6. 8.6 Starting from Standstill
15. Chapter 9. Short Wavelength Intermediate Frequency Tire Model
    1. 9.1 Introduction
    2. 9.2 The Contact Patch Slip Model
    3. 9.3 Tire Dynamics
    4. 9.4 Dynamic Tire Model Performance
16. Chapter 10. Dynamic Tire Response to Short Road Unevennesses
    1. 10.1 Model Development
    2. 10.2 Swift on Road Unevennesses (Simulation and Experiment)
17. Chapter 11. Motorcycle Dynamics
    1. 11.1 Introduction
    2. 11.2 Model Description
    3. 11.3 Linear Equations of Motion
    4. 11.4 Stability Analysis and Step Responses
    5. 11.5 Analysis of Steady-State Cornering
    6. 11.6 The Magic Formula Tire Model
18. Chapter 12. Tire Steady-State and Dynamic Test Facilities
19. Chapter 13. Outlines of Three Advanced Dynamic Tire Models
    1. Introduction
    2. 13.1 The RMOD-K Tire Model (Christian Oertel)
    3. 13.2 The FTire Tire Model (Michael Gipser)
    4. 13.3 The MF-Swift Tire Model (Igo Besselink)
20. References
21. List of Symbols
    1. Subscripts and superscripts
22. APPENDIX 1. Sign Conventions for Force and Moment and Wheel Slip
23. APPENDIX 2. Online Information
24. APPENDIX 3. MF-Tire/MF-Swift Parameters and Estimation Methods
25. Index