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FACULTATEA DE TRANSPORTURI
Conducător ştiinţific: Prof. dr. ing. Eugen Mihai Negruş Doctorand: Ing. Ciprian Tabacu
UNIVERSITY”POLITEHNICA” OF BUCHAREST
FACULTY OF TRANSPORTS
Contributions to improving the comfort and stability of road vehicles by optimizing suspension damping
characteristics
Scientific leader: Prof. Ph.D Eng. Eugen Mihai Negruş, Eng. Ciprian Tabacu
The rate of travel extension given by the building-up of horsepower motor and the falling of the streamlined
multiplier has asserted an expansion of the active safety too, namely of the steadiness, manageability and
comfort, being mainly achieved by means of improving the suspension dampers’ performances and its
optimization characteristics in terms of the vehicle’s purpose and the road type that the vehicle will be worked
on.
The paper presents the ¼ M model (quarter car) but also distinctive equations and concrete outcomes for a
couple of running conditions, acquired by simulation in Matlab-Simulink and ADAMS allowing advanced
optimisation of the suspension in order to reach target parameters of the stability and comfort. Likewise, in the
paper are also studied the damping constructive solutions used for the passive, semi-active and active
suspensions, as well as their operating mode.
The paper frames to study the keys for the active and passive dampers in addition to the simulation methods
for improving the vehicles’ comfort and stability by:
The definition of standards that dissipative characteristics have to carry out towards the improvement of
stability and comfort performances and proposals of such characteristics relative to the standard ones;
Practical solutions of control valves that will provide these improved characteristics;
Simulations in Matlab-Simulink software, on ¼ models and ½ vehicle, having two and 4 grades of
play, in order to show how vehicles behave to vertical vibrations of roll axis and pitch;
Simulations in ADAMS software, on ¼ models, vehicle having 2 grades of play on optimization of
dissipative characteristics.