ABSTRACT
As mentioned in Section 1.4, vehicles can be modeled by multibody systems. A full vehicle model consists of the vehicle framework supplemented by eventually separate modules for the steering system, the drive train, the tires, the load, passenger/seat models, an elastically suspended engine, and in the case of heavy trucks by an elastically suspended driver’s cab. The vehicle framework represents the kernel of such a full model. It includes at least the module chassis and modules for the wheel/axle suspension systems. Typical passenger cars are characterized by a sufficiently rigid chassis and independent wheel axle suspension systems. As an extension to the enhanced planar model, described in Section 8.4.1, the three-dimensional model for the vehicle framework now and the
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FIGURE 10.1 Bodies of the framework of a three-dimensional vehicle model.
