Snaking

[screamingaddabs_5082664]

Hi there, my name is adam and i am doing a engineering project regarding caravans at newcastle university. There is not that much information about caravan dynamics in our library and so i was hoping that i could find out more by asking the experts, people who reguarly use caravans.

The main thing i would like to know is, what are the usual causes and conditions that make a caravan "snake". Any information would be greatly appreciated.

 

[rayc]

Hi, there are three threads that might interest you in the Towing, driving & safety section of the forum.

'Snaking', page 1, 30th October.

'Snaking', page 2, 18th September.

'Why do caravans turn over', page 3, 2nd September.

Ray

 

[rob_jax]

Adam,

Good luck with your final year project, I hope that you have found this reference already:

The Simulation of Coupled Car and Caravan Handling Behaviour. Journal of Vehicle System Dynamics, 26, pp. 397-429. N Rosam and J Darling (1997)

Robert

 

[Lutz]

A couple of good references have already been mentioned. If you have further specific questions, don't hesitate to get in touch with me. You can send an email to the moderator of this forum (pcvforum@templenet.co.uk) with a request to forward it on to me. I am a vehicle dynamics and chassis engineer and you will see that quite a lot of contributions on the subject in this forum bear my signature.

 

[RogerL_5041474]

Bath University have done research on caravans, including stability. Check out their published research.

 

[screamingaddabs_5082664]

thanks guys, this is all excellant, made my day after turning up a lot of blanks looking elsewhere.