Faculty Code: AU13

Faculty Name: RAJESH. M

Designation: LECTURER

Question Bank
AT2402 - VEHICLE DYNAMICS

PART - A

1) Define the term-damped vibrations.

2) What is transmissibility?
3) What is magnification factor?
4) What are the various sources of vibration in vehicle?
5) Draw the general co-ordinate system of a road vehicle.
6) Define pitching and rolling followed in Vehicle dynamics.
7) Define close coupled and far coupled systems.
8) Define wheel hop an dwheel wobble.
9) Define Critical damping.
10) Define Logarithmic decrement.
11) What do you understand by modeling and simulation?
12) Define transmissibility.
13) Define critical damping applied to vehicle springing system?
14) What is the importance of understeer coefficient?
15) Discuss about effect of camber in cornering.
16) List out the advantage of numerical methods over matrix method?
17) Define eigen values & eigenvectors?

PART - B

1. Briefly discuss about vibration absorber.

2. Explain the vehicle vibration with single degree of freedom and derive the relation
for logarithmic decrement.

3. The front suspension of a motorcar is having an equivalent weight of 11281.5N

carried on spring stiffness. 88292 N/m. calculate the frequency of vertical natural
vibration with the dampers removed. If the dampers are adjusted to give total
damping force 4415.5 N/m/S calculate the frequency of damped vibration and
the ratio of the second down ward to the first down ward.

4. Sketch the curves of Amplitude ratio Vs frequency ratio and Transmissibility Vs

frequency ratio for different values of damping ratio for a typical value. Explain the
important facts.

5. The fig given below shows a locomotive engine with three fright cars. Take
following data m1=72 tonnes, m2=m4=m3=28 tonnes, k1=K2=k3=0.8MN/m.

6. Write down the equation of motion in matrix form and also find the dynamic
Matrix for the above system.
7. Define magnification factor. Explain the suitable example the concept of vibration
of absorber.
8. Discuss about load distribution of a road vehicle.
9. Discuss about sability of a vehicle making a turn.
10. Discuss about ride characteristics of tires.
11. Derive the relation o calculate understeer coefficient.
12. Find the model matrix for the system shown above.
13. Write the system of equation in matrix form for given mode.
14. Define and derive an expression to find the transmissibility also draw the
frequency response diagram and explain its significance.
15. Obtain the fundamental frequency as shown in figure.