REVIEW ARTICLE


Investigation on Emergency Brake Property of a Heavy-Duty Vehicle Based on Functional Virtual Prototyping Model



Shaohua Li*, 1, Jiangbo Chen1, Hongwei Huang2
1 School of Mechanical Engineering, Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, Shijiazhuang 050043, China
2 Institute of Science and technology of Daqin Railway Limited by Share Ltd, 030012, Taiyuan, China

Article Information


Identifiers and Pagination:

Year: 2014
Volume: 8
First Page: 675
Last Page: 681
Publisher Id: TOMEJ-8-675
DOI: 10.2174/1874155X01408010675

Article History:

Received Date: 08/01/2015
Revision Received Date: 15/01/2015
Acceptance Date: 16/01/2015
Electronic publication date: 31/12/2014
Collection year: 2014

© 2014 Li et al

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* Address correspondence to this author at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, 17 Northeast Second Inner Ring, Shijiazhuang, China. Postcard: 050043; Tel: +8631187939493; E-mail: lshsjz@163.com


Abstract

A Functional Virtual Prototyping full vehicle model for a tri-axial heavy-duty truck is built, and the non-linearity of suspension dampers and tires is also considered. With the trajectory of full vehicle gravity center, longitudinal tire force of front wheel, longitudinal acceleration, lateral acceleration, yaw rate and pitch angle as the evaluation indexes of brake property, the influences of system parameters including wheelbase, load shift, road surface roughness and separated road friction coefficient on brake efficiency, stability and ride comfort are analyzed. In addition, the interaction of brake and full vehicle dynamics is studied. Results show that small wheelbase and load shift may improve the brake efficiency of vehicles, small road surface roughness is beneficial to brake stability and ride comfort, and great frictional coefficient difference of separation road will worsen the brake efficiency and stability.

Keywords: Dynamic simulation model, Emergency brake, Heavy-duty vehicle, Stability, Traffic safety.