Tyre and Vehicle Dynamics

Pacejka H.B.

In Tyre and Vehicle Dynamics Professor Hans Pacejka provides both basic and more advanced explanations of the pneumatic tyre and its impact on vehicle dynamic performance.Tyre and Vehicle Dynamics is the definitive book in tyre mechanics by the acknowledged leading world authority Hans Pacejka.The author provides both basic and advanced knowledge of the mechanical behaviour of the pneumatic tyre and its impact on vehicle dynamic performance. The theoretical treatment given to the subject is supported throughout by practical experimental observations, and the book also focuses on developing an understanding upon which mathematical models of tyre behaviour can be developed and used. The text then acquaints the reader with the way in which the tyre models are incorporated in vehicle models and how the tyre influences vehicle behaviour. Those working in any industry involving equipment with tyres, such as aircraft undercarriage designers, will find this book both extremely useful and relevant.

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Table of contents :
1 Tyre characteristics and vehicle handling and stability……Page 2
2 Basic tyre modelling considerations……Page 62
3 Theory of steady-state slip force and moment generation……Page 91
4 Semi-empirical type models……Page 157
5 Non-steady-state out-of-plane string-based tyre models……Page 217
6 Theory of the wheel shimmy phenomenon……Page 296
7 Single contact point transient tyre models……Page 340
8 Applications of transient tyre models……Page 365
9 Short wavelength intermediate frequency tyre model……Page 413
10 Motorcycle dynamics……Page 512
References……Page 581
List of symbols……Page 591
Appendix 1 Sign conventions for force and moment and wheel slip……Page 597
Appendix 2 TreadSim……Page 598
Appendix 3 SWIFT parameters……Page 614