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Road Vehicle Dynamics

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    The course aims to develop students’ understanding of vehicle steering and handling characteristics, including steering mechanisms, cornering performance, directional stability, understeer, oversteer, and neutral steer. It also aims to introduce the principles of vehicle ride dynamics and road-induced vibrations, with emphasis on their effects on vehicle performance and driver/passenger comfort. Students will develop the ability to construct and analyze mathematical models of vehicle vibration systems, particularly the quarter-car model, and use MATLAB/Simulink to investigate the influence of suspension parameters on ride quality. The course also aims to enable students to assess vehicle ride comfort using appropriate vibration measures, human response criteria, and relevant international standards, while developing an appreciation of the importance of suspension design and vibration control in achieving safe, stable, and comfortable vehicles.
  • Course Goals
  • Quality Education
  • Affordable and Clean Energy
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Requirements

MDP312s

Description

  • English Description

    Steering Systems: Steering mechanisms, equivalent steering gear ratio, design, Steering of dependent and independent suspension. Concepts of neutral, oversteer and understeer vehicles, vehicle directional stability. Vehicle comfort criteria: sources of vibration inputs. International standards limit of human response to in-vehicle vibrations.
  • Arabic Description

    Steering Systems: Steering mechanisms, equivalent steering gear ratio, design, Steering of dependent and independent suspension. Concepts of neutral, oversteer and understeer vehicles, vehicle directional stability. Vehicle comfort criteria: sources of vibration inputs. International standards limit of human response to in-vehicle vibrations.
  • Department
    Automotive Engineering
  • Credit Hours
    3
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (25) + tr.Student Activities (35 = tr.Industry 0% , tr.Project 0% , tr.Self_learning 0% , tr.Seminar 35% ) + Exam Grade (40)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 2.0, Tutorial Hours: 2.0, Lab Hours: 0.0
  • Required SWL
    125
  • Equivalent ECTS
    5.0
  • 1. Wong, J.Y., 2008. Theory of ground vehicles. John Wiley & Sons.
  • 2. Abe, M., 2015. Vehicle handling dynamics: theory and application. Butterworth-Heinemann.
  • 3. Chen, W., Xiao, H., Wang, Q., Zhao, L. and Zhu, M. (2016). Lateral Vehicle Dynamics and Control. In Integrated Vehicle Dynamics and Control (EKB)