The Effect of Vehicle Suspension System Components on the Ride Comfort due to Road Roughness.

Authors

Ashraf Shaaban, Mechanical Power Engineering Department., National Research Center (NRC)
Yousef Abo-Mossalam, Assistant Professor., Production Engineering Department., Faculty of Engineering., El-Mansoura University., Mansoura., Egypt.
Kamal Abed, Assistant Professor., Mechanical Power Engineering Department., National Research Center (NRC).
Nihad El-Chazly, Power Engineering Department., National Research Center (NRC).

Subject Area

Production Engineering and Mechanical Design

Article Type

Original Study

Abstract

The aim of the present work is to investigate theoretically the vibration characteristics of the driver body components due to road surface irregularities, when changing the characteristics of suspension system components, A mathematical model representing the vehicle and the driver, and contains five degrees of freedom, has been built-up and analyzed. A computer program has been written based on the transfer matrices concept, and used in the frequency range up to 15 Hz, Finally, this work is considered a step towards obtaining useful technical protection data against vibration. The results indicate that the vibration characteristics of the driver body (ride comfort) are influence by the characteristics of the vehicle suspension system components.

Keywords

Vibration; Paved road; roughness; Human being; Driver; Vehicle body; suspension system

Recommended Citation

Shaaban, Ashraf; Abo-Mossalam, Yousef; Abed, Kamal; and El-Chazly, Nihad (2021) "The Effect of Vehicle Suspension System Components on the Ride Comfort due to Road Roughness.," Mansoura Engineering Journal: Vol. 20 : Iss. 4 , Article 8.
Available at: https://doi.org/10.21608/bfemu.2021.162617