Ground Vehicle Dynamics

The textbook "Ground Vehicle Dynamics" offers a comprehensive analysis and mathematical modeling of vehicle dynamics systems, which consist of the vehicle body, steering and suspension systems, as well as the corresponding roadways. It addresses various systems, including automobiles on uneven roads and rail vehicles on flexible tracks, utilizing analytical dynamics and control theory to examine these systems uniformly. The book delves into the modeling of vehicles as multi-body systems and discusses the contact mechanics of rolling wheels, as well as the modeling of roadways through finite element systems and stochastic processes. A central outcome of this integrated approach is the state equations of the global systems, which encompass the complete interactions between the subsystems considered as independent modules. The fundamentals of vehicle dynamics for longitudinal, lateral, and vertical movements, as well as vibrations of automobiles and rail vehicles, are discussed in detail.