Random road surfaces and vehicle vibration
Jürgen vom Scheidt, Ralf Wunderlich and Benno
Bellenberg
In: Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 98,
Teubner (1999), 352- 359
Abstract :
This paper is devoted to random vibrations of road vehicles excited by random
road surfaces.
The vehicle is modeled as a multibody system consisting of rigid bodies
coupled by springs and dampers.
Characteristics of springs and dampers are approximated by polynomials.
The resulting mathematical model is a system of nonlinear ordinary
differential equations of second order with random inhomogeneous terms.
Its solution is found by using perturbation method.
Approximations of correlation and spectral density functions of motions,
velocities and accelerations of the rigid bodies are calculated
using limit theorems of weakly correlated random functions.