Both the seat and cab system of truck play a vital role in ride comfort.The damping matching methods of the two systems are studied separately at present.However,the driver,seat,and cab system are one inseparable whol...Both the seat and cab system of truck play a vital role in ride comfort.The damping matching methods of the two systems are studied separately at present.However,the driver,seat,and cab system are one inseparable whole.In order to further improve ride comfort,the seat suspension is regarded as the fifth suspension of the cab,a new idea of ＂Five-suspensions＂ is proposed.Based on this idea,a 4 degree-of-freedom driver-seat-cab coupled system model is presented.Using the tested cab suspensions excitations as inputs and seat acceleration response as compared output,the simulation model is built.Taking optimal ride comfort as target,a new method of damping collaborative optimization for Five-suspensions is proposed.With a practical example of seat and cab system,the damping parameters are optimized and validated by simulation and bench test.The results show the seat vertical frequency-weighted RMS acceleration values tested for the un-optimized and optimized Five-suspensions are 0.50 m/s～2 and 0.39 m/s～2,respectively,with a decrease by 22.0%,which proves the model and method proposed are correct and reliable.The idea of ＂Five-suspensions＂ and the method proposed provide a reference for achieving global optimal damping matching of seat suspension and cab suspensions.展开更多
基金Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51575325)Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.ZR2013EEM007)
文摘Both the seat and cab system of truck play a vital role in ride comfort.The damping matching methods of the two systems are studied separately at present.However,the driver,seat,and cab system are one inseparable whole.In order to further improve ride comfort,the seat suspension is regarded as the fifth suspension of the cab,a new idea of ＂Five-suspensions＂ is proposed.Based on this idea,a 4 degree-of-freedom driver-seat-cab coupled system model is presented.Using the tested cab suspensions excitations as inputs and seat acceleration response as compared output,the simulation model is built.Taking optimal ride comfort as target,a new method of damping collaborative optimization for Five-suspensions is proposed.With a practical example of seat and cab system,the damping parameters are optimized and validated by simulation and bench test.The results show the seat vertical frequency-weighted RMS acceleration values tested for the un-optimized and optimized Five-suspensions are 0.50 m/s～2 and 0.39 m/s～2,respectively,with a decrease by 22.0%,which proves the model and method proposed are correct and reliable.The idea of ＂Five-suspensions＂ and the method proposed provide a reference for achieving global optimal damping matching of seat suspension and cab suspensions.
