Design and Analysis of Double Wishbone Suspension Module with Wheel-Track Variant Wheels

Abstract:

Based on the new type of wheel-track variant wheel prototype which is developed independently and creatively, the paper focuses on several problems, including the severe wear of track links, the difficulty in steering under the form of track, and so on, and combines the characteristics of variant wheel, so as to design and analyze the positional parameters of variant wheel-double wishbone suspension module. Besides, through refitting the variant wheel based on a type of all terrain farmer truck (UTV), the paper builds a model for the kinematics analysis of UTV variant wheel—double wishbone suspension model, and takes the minimum of the weighed sum of changes in wheel alignment parameters and the lateral displacement of variant wheel which affect wheel wear and steering as the optimized objective, so as to carry out an optimization calculation for its suspension system. In addition to that, the paper modifies UTV based on the optimization results, solves the problems arising in the experiments of variant wheel, and provides theoretical support and references for the application of wheel-track variant wheel in other types of vehicles.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 945-949)
• Pages: 867-873
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.945-949.867
• Online since: June 2014
• Authors: Cai Hong Shi, Shao Hua Kang, Chun Hui Li, Jun Zhong Hu, Lin Huang, Xi Zheng Zhang*
• Keywords: Double Wishbone Suspension, Optimization Design, Positional Parameters of Wheels, UTV, Wheel-Track Variant Wheel

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