APPENDIX C COMPUTER PROGRAM TO PREDICT VEBICLE RESPONSE TO VERTICAL TRACK. IRREGULARITIES "FULL CAR MODEL"EQUATIONS OF MOTION FOR VERTICAL DYNAMICS For an evaluation of the vertical response to track profile irregularities, the model in Figure C-1 which includes damping in the secondary suspension can be used to describe the vehicle. Since the parameters of interest are the motion of the car body and displacements of the wheels, a convenient set of coordinates to describe the system is y, and 6), the vertical and angular displacements of the car body, and vy, vz, v3 Vg, the displace- ments of the trucks at their connections to the equalizer springs. Since the motion described by this model is not coupled to roll or lateral response of the vehicle, the wheel inputs, vy 91 Vag V39" Ygo Tepresent the average of the two rail profiles. : v= Meat eb 49 1 my¥y + 20/2 - Far +54%,)] + 2k, [re - Ferats)| ° (eu) Sled ts yb, + 200, [a5 + FFata-%,)] (c-2) (c-3)(c-4) (c-5) (c-6) As discussed previously, the normal modes containing pitch and bounch motions of the car body can be decoupled from the pitch motion of the trucks. In addition, the bounce can be uncoupled from unsynmetric translation of the trucks (Figures C-2d and A-2e) and the pitch from symmetric translation (Figures C-2b and A-2c) so that the dynamics of of two simpler equivalent two symmetric translation of mimes the six equations to, =v). Substitution hy + co(fab) + the car can be interpreted in terms degrees of freedom systems. the trucks can be represented by in the equations of motion reduces anthems enTepow OTWeUAG xeD TINg “1-9 exnbyg