Background to Suspension Assessment
Abstract
This chapter is concerned with assessing the road-damaging potential of dynamic tyre forces generated by articulated heavy goods vehicles. The European suspension assessment test is reviewed. Various testing factors are discussed, including: (i) general testing methodologies; (ii) road damage issues such as ‘spatial repeatability’ of dynamic tyre forces and road damage criteria; (iii) vehicle response issues, such as test duration and data sampling details, road roughness, testing speed and wheelbase filtering. Various conclusions are drawn about the requirements for objective suspension assessment.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems
Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation
Railway Engineering and Dynamics
Publication details
- Journal / source
- CRC Press eBooks
- Pages
- 507–522
- Publication date
- 11 February 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter