Manufacturing Technology 2019, 19(2):297-302 | DOI: 10.21062/ujep/286.2019/a/1213-2489/MT/19/2/297

Increase of the Overturning Immunity of an Electric Tricycle

Alfred Pavlik, Jan Dizo, Pavol Kurcik, Miroslav Blatnicky, Peter Strazovec
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of ®ilina. Univerzitná 8215/1, 010 26 ®ilina. Slovak Republic

The main topic of this paper is the presentation of the keynote of implementation of the newly designed steering mechanism for a tricycle with the electric powertrain with two wheels on the rear axle. On the present, three-wheeled road vehicles with two wheels on the rear axle are wholly dependent on the standard steering mechanism, which main task is the rotation of a front wheel about the steering axis in order to ensure the change of direction in curves. These vehicles are characterised by the relatively poor overturning immunity in a curve. Therefore, in our workplace the new steering mechanism was developed, which is intended to be mounted just in such three-wheeled vehicles construction. The main principle feature of our innovative steering mechanism consists in the additional lateral movement of the front wheel of a vehicle, when it is driving in a curve. Thus, a tricycle using this newly designed steering system can run in curves at greater speed and driving is safer. In this paper, there are presented the working principle of the newly designed steering system as well as dynamic analyses of a three-wheeled vehicle when it is running in curves.

Keywords: Three-wheeled vehicle, Dynamic simulation, Steering mechanism, Overturning immunity
Grants and funding:

Cultural and Educational Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic in the project No. KEGA 007®U-4/2017: Modernization of the Vehicle and engines study program.

Published: April 1, 2019  Show citation

ACS AIP APA ASA Harvard Chicago IEEE ISO690 MLA NLM Turabian Vancouver
Pavlik A, Dizo J, Kurcik P, Blatnicky M, Strazovec P. Increase of the Overturning Immunity of an Electric Tricycle. Manufacturing Technology. 2019;19(2):297-302. doi: 10.21062/ujep/286.2019/a/1213-2489/MT/19/2/297.
Share...
Download citation
  • BibTeX (.bib)
  • Bookends (.ris)
  • EasyBib (.ris)
  • EndNote (.enw)
  • EndNote 8 (.xml)
  • ISI WoS (.isi)
  • Medlars (.medlars)
  • Mendeley (.ris)
  • MODS (.xml)
  • Papers (.ris)
  • RefWorks (.txt)
  • RefManager (.ris)
  • RIS (.ris)
  • MS Word (.xml)
  • Zotero (.ris)
    • Open full article

    References

    1. BARAN, P., BREZANI, M., KUKUCA, P., STASTNIAK, P. (2017). Basic dynamical analysis and comparison of balancing systems of non-conventional piston machine FIK. In: Procedia Engineering, Vol. 192, pp. 34-39. Go to original source...
    2. BARAN, P., STASTNIAK, P., KUKUCA, P., BREZANI, M. (2018). Analysis of kinematic features in non-conventional piston device with wobble board. In: Manufacturing Technology, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 179-184. Go to original source...
    3. BAROTE, J., DARLING, J., PLUMMER, A. (2015). Lateral dynamics simulation of a three-wheeled tilting vehicle. In: Proceedings of the Institution of mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering 229, 342-356 (2015) Go to original source...
    4. CHALUPA, M. (2015). The using of vehicle moving simulation to proposal of construction work. In: Manufacturing Technology, Vol. 15, No. 5, pp. 845-850. Go to original source...
    5. DIZO, J., BARTA, D., BLATNICKY, M. (2018). Improvement driving characteristics of electric tricycle. In: Proceedings of Engineering for Rural Development 17, pp. 2123-2128. Go to original source...
    6. FALENDYSH, A., KHARLAMOV, P., KLETSKA, O., VOLODARETS, O. (2016). Calculation of the parameters of hybrid shunting locomotive. In: Transportation Research Procedia, Vol. 14, pp. 665-671. Go to original source...
    7. GERLICI, J., GORBUNOV, M., NOZHENKO, O., PISTEK, V., KARA, S., LACK, T., KRAVCHENKO, K. (2017). About creation of bogie of the freight car. In: Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 29-35. Go to original source...
    8. GERLICI, J., LACK, T. (2009). Iterative method for railway wheel profile design. In: Komunikacie, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 49-56. Go to original source...
    9. HAUSER, V., NOZHENKO, O., KRAVCHENKO, K., LOULOVA, M., GERLICI, J., LACK, T. (2017). Impact of three axle boxes bogie to the tram behaviour when passing curved track. In: Procedia Engineering, Vol. 192, pp. 295-300. Go to original source...
    10. HAUSER, V., NOZHENKO, O., KRAVCHENKO, K., LOULOVA, M., GERLICI, J., LACK, T. (2017). Proposal of a mechanism for setting bogie wheelset to radial position while riding along track curve. In: Manufacturing Technology, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 286-192. Go to original source...
    11. HAUSER, V., NOZHENKO, O., KRAVCHENKO, K., LOULOVA, M., GERLICI, J., LACK, T. (2017). Proposal of a steering mechanism for tram bogie with three axle boxes. In: Procedia Engineering, Vol. 192, pp. 289-294. Go to original source...
    12. ISTENIK, R., BARTA, D., MUCHA, W. (2004). Influence of the wheels on the automobile dynamics. In: Komunikacie, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 26-28. Go to original source...
    13. JONAK, M., KASPAREK, J. (2015). Discrete computational model of a tire. In: Proceedings of 19th International Scientific Conference on Transport Means, TRANSPORT MEANS 2015, pp. 341-344.
    14. JUBIN, J. A., JAYBAL, K. (2016). Rollover dynamics of a narrow tilting three-wheeled vehicle. In: MATEC Web of Conferences, Vol. 51.
    15. KLIMENDA, F., RYCHLIKOVA, L., HUSAR, S., SOUKUP, J. (2017). Dissemination of waves in thin plates. In: Manufacturing Technology, Vol. 17, No. 6, pp. 863-869. Go to original source...
    16. KLIMENDA, F., SKOCILASOVA, B. (2015). Rollers vibration of pipe conveyor. In: Manufacturing Technology, Vol. 15, No. 6, pp. 991-995. Go to original source...
    17. KURCIK, P., HARUSINEC, J., STRAZOVEC, P., PAVLIK, A. (2018). Strength analysis of an E3-kolka frame design (In Slovak). In: Proceedings of 5th International Conference for young scientific workers EVM 2018, pp. 61-69.
    18. LACK, T., GERLICI, J. (2005). Contact area and normal stress determination on railway wheel/rail contact. In: Komunikacie, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 38-45.
    19. LACK, T., GERLICI, J. (2012). Modified strip method utilisation for wheel/rail contact stress evaluation. In: Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Contact Mechanics and Wear of Rail/Wheel Systems, CM 2012, Chengdu, China, pp. 87-89.
    20. LACK, T., GERLICI, J. (2009). Railway wheel and rail roughness analysis. In: Komunikacie, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 41-48. Go to original source...
    21. LACK, T., GERLICI, J. (2013). Wheel/rail contact stress evaluation by means of the modified strip method. In: Komunikacie, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 126-132. Go to original source...
    22. LACK, T., GERLICI, J. (2014). Wheel/rail tangential contact stress evaluation by means of the modified strip method. In: Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina, Vol. 16, No. 3a, pp. 33-39. Go to original source...
    23. LOULOVA, M., SUCHANEK, A., HARUSINEC, J. (2017). Evaluation of the parameters affecting passenger riding comfort of a rail vehicle. In: Manufacturing Technology, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 224-231. Go to original source...
    24. MANUROVA, M., SUCHANEK, A. (2016). The analysis of a rail vehicle with a tilting bogie. In: Manufacturing Technology, Vol. 16, No. 5, pp. 1020-1027. Go to original source...
    25. MRUZEK, M., GAJDAC, L., KUCERA, L., BARTA, D. (2016). Analysis of parameters influencing electric vehicle range. In: Procedia Engineering, Vol. 134, pp. 165-174. Go to original source...
    26. PASTIRCAK, R., SCURY, J., MORAVEC, J. (2017). The effects of pressure during the crystallization on properties of the alsi12 alloy. In: Archives of Foundry Engineering, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 103-106. Go to original source...
    27. SAPIETOVA, A., BUKOVAN, J., SAPIETA, M., JAKUBOVICOVA, L. (2017). Analysis and implementation of input load effects on an air compressor piston in MSC.ADAMS. In: Procedia Engineering 177, 554-561 (2017) Go to original source...
    28. SMETANKA, L., STASTNIAK, P. (2017). Analysis of contact stresses of theoretical and worn profile by using computer simulation. In: Manufacturing Technology, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 580-585. Go to original source...
    29. SVOBODA, M., SOUKUP, J., JELEN, K., KUBOVY, P. (2015). Effect of impacts on human head. In: Manufacturing Technology, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 226-231. Go to original source...
    30. TARTAKOVSKY, E., FALENDYSH, A., ZINKIVSKYI, A., MIKHEEV, S. (2015). Refining the models of performing service tests of upgraded locomotives. In: EasternEuropean Journal of Enterprise Technologies, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 26-31. Go to original source...

    This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0), which permits non-comercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original publication is properly cited. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.


    Return to the content