Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Tire Characteristics and Vehicle Handling and Stability
1.2 Tire and Axle Characteristics
1.3 Vehicle Handling and Stability
Chapter 2. Basic Tire Modeling Considerations
2.2 Definition of Tire Input Quantities
2.3 Assessment of Tire Input Motion Components
2.4 Fundamental Differential Equations for a Rolling and Slipping Body
2.5 Tire Models (Introductory Discussion)
Chapter 3. Theory of Steady-State Slip Force and Moment Generation
3.3 The Tread Simulation Model
3.4 Application: Vehicle Stability at Braking up to Wheel Lock
Chapter 4. Semi-Empirical Tire Models
4.3 The Magic Formula Tire Model
Chapter 5. Non-Steady-State Out-of-Plane String-Based Tire Models
5.2 Review of Earlier Research
5.3 The Stretched String Model
5.4 Approximations and Other Models
5.6 Side Force Response to Time-Varying Load
Chapter 6. Theory of the Wheel Shimmy Phenomenon
6.2 The Simple Trailing Wheel System with Yaw Degree of Freedom
6.3 Systems with Yaw and Lateral Degrees of Freedom
6.5 Nonlinear Shimmy Oscillations
Chapter 7. Single-Contact-Point Transient Tire Models
7.3 Enhanced Nonlinear Transient Tire Model
Chapter 8. Applications of Transient Tire Models
8.1 Vehicle Response to Steer Angle Variations
8.2 Cornering on Undulated Roads
8.3 Longitudinal Force Response to Tire Nonuniformity, Axle Motions, and Road Unevenness
8.4 Forced Steering Vibrations
8.5 ABS Braking on Undulated Road
Chapter 9. Short Wavelength Intermediate Frequency Tire Model
9.2 The Contact Patch Slip Model
9.4 Dynamic Tire Model Performance
Chapter 10. Dynamic Tire Response to Short Road Unevennesses
10.2 Swift on Road Unevennesses (Simulation and Experiment)
Chapter 11. Motorcycle Dynamics
11.3 Linear Equations of Motion
11.4 Stability Analysis and Step Responses
11.5 Analysis of Steady-State Cornering
11.6 The Magic Formula Tire Model
Chapter 12. Tire Steady-State and Dynamic Test Facilities
Chapter 13. Outlines of Three Advanced Dynamic Tire Models
13.1 The RMOD-K Tire Model (Christian Oertel)
13.2 The FTire Tire Model (Michael Gipser)
13.3 The MF-Swift Tire Model (Igo Besselink)
APPENDIX 1. Sign Conventions for Force and Moment and Wheel Slip
APPENDIX 2. Online Information
APPENDIX 3. MF-Tire/MF-Swift Parameters and Estimation Methods