Research and Focus Areas

The current projects at AVDL can be divided into six broad categories:

• Suspensions
• Noise and Vibration
• Vehicle Dynamics
• Terramechanics
• Multibody System Dynamics
• Biodynamics

Suspensions

• Application of controllable Magneto Rheological (MR) dampers to industrial and advanced applications
• Dynamic and kinematics analysis of heavy truck suspensions
• Design and analysis of controllable seat suspensions for heavy vehicles
• Impact of heavy truck suspensions on road damage

Noise and Vibrations

• Applying advanced piezoceramic materials for reducing noise and vibrations in ground vehicles
• Identifying the source of noise and vibrations
• Reducing noise and vibrations using passive and piezoceramic (smart) damping material in vehicles such as cars, highway trucks, locomotive cabs, and farm tractor cabs.

Vehicle Dynamics

• Mathematical modeling and numerical analysis, as well as field-testing of vehicles
• Tire and track models
• Analytical modeling and computer simulation of tracked vehicles to evaluate their dynamic performance and off-road mobility

Terramechanics

• Developing mathematical models to capture the vehicle-terrain interaction for wheeled and tracked off-road vehicles Single Suspension Test Rig Semi-active Primary Suspension for Passenger Vehicles
• Mathematical modeling for vehicle-terrain interaction of manned and unmanned off-road vehicles, to evaluate their dynamic performance and mobility
• Stochastic soil and terrain modeling
• Experimental studies for tire/track-soil/ice contact

Multibody System Dynamics

• Efficient treatment of multibody dynamic systems with uncertainties
• Develop novel control methodologies for complex nonlinear mechanical systems

BioDynamics

• Efficient treatment of multibody dynamic systems with uncertainties
• Develop novel control methodologies for complex nonlinear mechanical systems
• Studying the effect of vehicle noise and vibrations on human body comfort and fatigue and cognitive performance