The air spring is the main part of the secondary suspension of passenger railway vehicles.
The aim of this paper is to review existing modelling techniques for air springs in order to …

Whole‐body vibration (WBV) is a significant concern for vehicle users as it can negatively
impact their health and comfort. As such, effective vibration isolation is critical in vehicle …

An accurate model of rolling lobe air spring (RLAS) is the key to achieve the design,
matching and optimization of air suspension. A refined stiffness model of RLAS with …

橡胶通常被看作一种不可压缩各向同性的超弹性材料, 其本构模型通常用应变能密度方程表示.
针对Yeoh 模型偏软的特性, 该文提出了一种改进的Yeoh 超弹性材料本构模型 …

囊式空气弹簧的结构参数及橡胶气囊力学特性是影响其力学特性的关键因素,
解决结构参数辨识和橡胶气囊建模难题是计算囊式空气弹簧刚度特性的关键途径 …

The article presents a novel mathematical model to analyze the performance of convoluted
air springs (CAS) with different numbers of bellows. The proposed mathematical model …

Featured Application Diaphragm-type air springs in railway vehicles. Abstract The stiffness
in various directions of air springs have a great influence on the stability of high-speed …

A new refined model including a model of the bellows to describe the vertical stiffness of a
convoluted air spring is developed. The new model of a convoluted air spring incorporates …

Rubber is generally regarded as incompressible, isotropic, and hyperelastic material whose
constitutive model is usually described in terms of strain energy density functions. An …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a method to simulate the polytropic process
of air springs. Design/methodology/approach An iterative finite element method (FEM) is …