Mehmet Murat Topaç, Merve Karaca, Aziz Başdemir, Batuhan Kuleli

Buckling Safety Assessment for the Multi-Axle Steering Linkage of an 8x8 Special Purpose Vehicle

Vehicle steering mechanisms are generally considered as safety sub-systems due to their control andstability functions. Therefore, structural elements of a steering linkage should strictly resist the serviceloads without any overload failure. This paper reports an exemplary case study on the bucklingevaluation of the multi-axle steering linkage tie rods which will be used in an 8x8 special purposevehicle. In the first part of the study, full multibody dynamics (MBD) model of the vehicle including thesteering linkage was composed by using Adams/Car™ commercial software. With this model, handlingsimulations were carried out to determine the service loads for various driving conditions. In order toverify the MBD model, reaction forces occur at the linkage joints were also calculated by using detailedfinite element (FE) model of the entire system for the same driving conditions. In the final part of thework, buckling safety of the tie rods was assessed for the critical load case. In this way suitability of thesystem was evaluated in terms of buckling.

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ISSN: 1305-130X
Başlangıç: 2005
Yayıncı: Manisa Celal Bayar Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü

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