Laboratory Control of Dynamic Vehicle Testing

Abstract

In order to study vehicle suspension and frame dynamics under controlled and reproducible laboratory conditions, TACOM's road simulator or 'shaker test' was developed. A road simulator is a laboratory test device which imparts dynamic forces simulating road inputs, on a complete vehicle. It is the purpose of this study to develop vertical position control signals for the road simulator so that good correlation between laboratory test and field results is obtained.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0735757

Entities

People

  • James W. Grant

Organizations

  • Tank-automotive and Armaments Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Actuators
  • Computers
  • Control Simulators
  • Dynamics
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Equations
  • Frequency Response
  • Hydraulic Actuators
  • Materials
  • Mathematical Models
  • Models
  • Random Variables
  • Signal Generation
  • Simulators
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Pavement Materials Engineering.