Chassis Dynamometer Simulation of Tire Impact Response
2001-01-1481
04/30/2001
- Event
- Content
- One of the major NVH concerns for automobile manufacturers is the response of a vehicle to the impact of the tire as it encounters a road discontinuity or bump. This paper describes methods for analyzing the impact response of a vehicle to such events. The test vehicle is driven on a dynamometer, on which a bump simulating cleat is mounted. The time histories of the cleat impact response of the vehicle can be classified as a transient and a repeated signal, which should be processed in a special way. This paper describes the related signal processing issues, which include converting the time data into a continous spectrum, determination of the correct scaling factor for the analyzed spectrum, and smoothing out harmonics and fluctuations in the signal. This procedure yields a smooth frequency spectrum with a correctly scaled amplitude, in which the frequency contents can be easily identified.
- Pages
- 7
- Citation
- Liu, C., and Goetchius, G., "Chassis Dynamometer Simulation of Tire Impact Response," SAE Technical Paper 2001-01-1481, 2001, https://doi.org/10.4271/2001-01-1481.