Abstract: This paper presents two vehicle models used to investigate the effects of active suspensions. One is a linear seven degree of freedom ride model. The second is a nonlinear ten degree of ...

Abstract: This paper presents a numerical solution method for dynamic analysis of constrained mechanical systems. This method reduces a coupled set of differential and algebraic equations to state space ...

Abstract: This paper presents a new formulation for the equations of motion of interconnected rigid bodies. This formulation initially uses Cartesian coordinates to define the position of the system, the ...

Abstract: This paper presents a new approach for linearization of large multibody dynamic systems. The approach uses an analytical differentiation of terms evaluated in a numerical equation formulation. ...

Abstract: This paper presents a method for obtaining linearized state space representations of open or closed loop multibody dynamic systems. The paper develops a symbolic formulation for multibody dynamic ...

Abstract: This paper presents a multibody model of a passenger car and correlates the model with experimental data. Included in the model is a simple load-leveling control algorithm for controlling low ...