The Roll Stability Analysis of Semi-Trailer Based on the Wheel Force

It is different for the liquid tank semi-trailer to keep roll stability during turning or emergency voidance, and that may cause serious accidents. Although the scholars did lots of research about the roll stability of liquid tank semi-trailer in theory by calculating and simulation, how to make an effective early warning of rollover is still unsolved in practice. The reasons include the complex driving condition and the difficulty of the vehicle parameter obtaining. The feasible method used currently is evaluating the roll stability of a liquid tank semi-trailer by the lateral acceleration or the attitude of the vehicle. Unfortunately, the lateral acceleration is more useful for sideslip rather than rollover, and the attitude is a kind of posterior way, which means it is hard to take measures to cope with the rollover accident when the attitude exceeds the safety threshold. Considering the movement of the vehicle is totally caused by the wheel force, the rollover could also be predicted by the changing of the wheel force. Therefore, in this paper, we developed a method to analyze the roll stability by the vertical wheel force. A thorough experiment environment is established, and the effectiveness of the proposed method is verified in real driving conditions.