User's guide and program description for a tripped roll over vehicle simulation. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Heavy truck safety study. Prepared in response to Section 216 of the Motor Carrier Safety Act of 1984. Final report.

Mode of access: Internet.

Test and evaluation of the AMF, Inc. and Fairchild Industries experimental safety vehicles. Volume III. ESV program summary. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Accident avoidance evaluation of General Motors experimental safety vehicle. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Improved hybrid computer vehicle handling program. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Advanced motorcycle handling and dynamics. Summary technical report - volume I. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Advanced motorcycle handling and dynamics. Appendix A - volume III. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Feasibility of an automatic truck warning system. Final report.

Federal Highway Administration, Office of Safety and Traffic Operations Research and Development, McLean, Va.

Sensitivity analysis of vehicle tripped rollover model. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Advanced motorcycle handling and dynamics. Final technical report - volume II. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

A Lagrangian approach to nonlinear modeling of anti-roll tanks

This paper presents two novel nonlinear models of u-shaped anti-roll tanks for ships, and their linearizations. In addition, a third simplified nonlinear model is presented. The models are derived using Lagrangian mechanics. This formulation not only simplifies the modeling process, but also allows one to obtain models that satisfy energy-related physical properties. The proposed nonlinear models and their linearizations are validated using model-scale experimental data. Unlike other models in the literature, the nonlinear models in this paper are valid for large roll amplitudes. Even at moderate roll angles, the nonlinear models have three orders of magnitude lower mean square error relative to experimental data than the linear models.

A nonlinear observer for estimating transverse stability parameters of marine surface vessels

This paper presents a nonlinear observer for estimating parameters associated with the restoring term of a roll motion model of a marine vessel in longitudinal waves. Changes in restoring, also referred to as transverse stability, can be the result of changes in the vessel's centre of gravity due to, for example, water on deck and also in changes in the buoyancy triggered by variations in the water-plane area produced by longitudinal waves -- propagating along the fore-aft direction along the hull. These variations in the restoring can change dramatically the dynamics of the roll motion leading to dangerous resonance. Therefore, it is of interest to estimate and detect such changes.