Date of Award
2017
Publication Type
Master Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.Sc.
Department
Mechanical, Automotive, and Materials Engineering
Keywords
mechanical design; motorcycle dynamics; multibody dynamics; numerical simulation; suspension system; vehicle dynamics
Supervisor
Minaker, Bruce
Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Abstract
The development of motorcycles has been around for over a century. Nowadays, it has become one of the most popular means of transportation in the world. It is well known that the telescopic fork is the most widely used front suspension for motorcycles, because the first motorcycle was a bicycle with a small engine attached to the frame. However, there are a number of shortcomings inherent in this design. Therefore, a novel multi-link suspension has been designed for the front assembly of the motorcycle in this research. In order to compare the performance between telescopic fork and multi-link front suspension motorcycles, linear and nonlinear models were built and simulated under a variety of different conditions. Furthermore, an appropriate method of comparison between conventional and multi-link models was developed, and the assessment standard of performance for conventional and multi-link models was explored in this research.
Recommended Citation
Liu, Changdong, "A Multibody Dynamics Model of a Motorcycle with a Multi-link Front Suspension" (2017). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 7376.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/7376