The Development of Measurement and Characterization Techniques of Road Profiles

The principal excitation to a vehicle's chassis system is the road profile. Simulating a vehicle traversing long roads is impractical and a method to produce short roads with given characteristics must be developed. By understanding the characteristics of the road, a reduced set of models can b...

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Main Author: Kern, Joshua Victor
Other Authors: Mechanical Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/10118
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07202007-120459