... of a novel response surface method. The mentioned approach is applied to a nonlinear road vehicle model under strong crosswind excitation for which the failure probabilities and the sensitivities are computed. The failure probability can then be estimated by 12 P ¯ f = P ¯ ( F 1...

... developed at Politecnico di Milano during the past few years ( 1 2 ). numerical analysis railways road vehicles vehicle dynamics 10 11 2005 03 05 2007 As far as the mean values of lateral contact forces during curve negotiation are concerned, Figs. 16 17 show some...

...Zhaoheng Liu; Guy Payre This paper investigates the global stability behavior present near a bifurcation point of a nonlinear road vehicle system. The nonlinear behavior of the system is determined by reducing its dimensions according to the center manifold theory applied to a nongeneric case...