Estudo da dinâmica vertical em suspensão duplo A de um veículo off-road tipo baja.

Abstract

Currently, the development of the automotive industry and greater market demand stimulated the intensification of studies on vehicular dynamics, leading manufacturers to centralize their efforts to produce and optimize technologies capable of faster, safer and comfortable vehicles. Through the evolution of computation, it became viable the realization of numerical simulation of complex models of vehicles that would be able to optimize and understand the real dynamic behavior of the vehicle subjected to adverse situations. Within this context, this paper presents a study of computational modeling (quarter car, half car and multibody models) used for assessment of the vertical dynamic behavior of a vehicle type off-road (Baja) with front and rear suspension Double A. To make it possible, surveys of experimental parameters associated with studies of suspension of a vehicle off-road, the baja type, with the aid of dynamic testing (MTS 321.21) vertical machine dynamics were made in addition to dynamic studies in one inertial table through a vibrations analyzer. Through parameters, mathematical models (quarter car and half car) were built and simulated in MATLAB software. The complete car were built and simulated in multibody environment. With the results, there were evaluated the influence of the internal tire pressure, the variation of springs stiffness and the dampening effect throughout ordinary situations to this kind of vehicle and then allowing evaluates its vertical dynamic behavior. Therefore, the profiles of these works were idealized clues: speed bump, ditches and swept sine. In the experiments stands out a variation of the radial stiffness of the tire, when changes occur in their internal pressure, the effect of varying the values of the unsprung mass of the system, modifying the dynamic behavior of the vehicle at the time of excitation by the adversities of the soil, and the variation of contact force tire / ground with the change of the internal pressure of the tires. These effects cause changes in the vertical dynamic behavior, and in some cases even in the lateral dynamics may influence the performance of the vehicle, which makes it essential to make these types of studies to better understand the phenomena existing in situations that are off-road vehicle submitted.