MAE 4543 creditsPrereq: Pre-Requisite: MAE 340 ; ASE and ME majors only.
MAE 454: Road Vehicle Dynamics
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- Covers the forces and torques generated by tires (under both traction and braking) and by the relative wind; two-wheel and four-wheel models of a vehicle; simplified stability and control of transients; steady-state response to external disturbances; effects of the roll degree of freedom; equations of motion in body-fixed coordinates; lateral load transfer; force-moment analysis; and applications of feedback-control theory to the design of subsystems for improved performance.
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- Aaron Estes
- Edward Kasprzak
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