Research Article

Stability, Bifurcation, and Quenching Chaos of a Vehicle Suspension System

Table 1

Nomenclature and parameters.

NotationValueUnitDescription

240kgThe body mass
16 104N/mThe suspension stiffness coefficient
30 104N/m3The nonlinear hysteretic suspension stiffness coefficient
250Ns/mThe linear damping coefficient
−25Ns3/m3The nonlinear hysteretic suspension viscous damping coefficient
0.05mThe amplitude of road excitation
mThe road excitation
mThe body’s vertical displacement
rad/sThe frequency of road excitation