Independent Wheel Vehicle suspension

Independent Wheel Vehicle suspension

Introduction:

The suspension system connecting a vehicle body to wheels and its tyre allows the wheel to move in an essentially vertical direction in response to good surface irregularities, a spring element temporarily stores and releases energy thus insulating the vehicle body form acceleration peaks. A shock absorber ‘damper’ insures that oscillation induced by road unevenness or aerodynamic forces (or by accelerating breaking) which would impair ride comfort and road holding die away quickly.

Conventional system provides greater simplicity. They contain systems like rigid axle suspension. They are most widely used in heavy carriers. Suspension is directly using leaf spring hence they have less complexity. In this system both wheels of the
vehicle are suspended in combination as directly axle is suspended. Simplicity is the only advantage, they do not provide
effective suspension.


With development of technology a new concept called independent wheel suspension has emerged. In this system both the wheels are suspended independently as every wheel has it’s independent suspension system. This provides suspension for actual road conditions. This system is very complex but have advantages like low weight, plenty of scope for achieving favorable elasto-kinematics effects, no coupling of masses, no suspension parts that run right across the vehicle. Hence now a days in most of the passenger cars this system is used and preferred over conventional system, providing the real smooth drive.

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