Local Body Stiffness 변화에 따른 조향특성 연구

This paper aims to explain the steering characteristics by changing local body stiffness. It is well know that body characteristics affect the quality of the dynamics of vehicles, such as handling performance, ride comfort and noise and vibration. This study focuses on the steering performance by changing local body stiffness since the steering characteristics are much affected by local body stiffness. In order to define local body stiffness effect, strut bar and reinforce shock tower are used for objective and subjective evaluation. The on-center handling test was conducted and good correlation was obtained between objective on center handling and subjective evaluation. With the study of on center handling test for local body stiffness, this paper explains the local body stiffness factor for enhancing steering performance.