TY - JOUR A1 - Rill, Georg A1 - Bauer, Florian A1 - Topcagic, Edin T1 - Performance of leaf spring suspended axles in model approaches of different complexities T2 - Vehicle System Dynamics N2 - Axles with leaf spring suspension systems are still a popular choice in many commercial vehicles. However, leaf springs are not in perfect conformity to standard multibody vehicle models because they combine guidance and suspension in one single element. Combining standard multibody vehicle models with sophisticated finite element leaf spring models results in rather complex and computing time-consuming solutions. Purely kinematic models, defined by lookup tables or the design kinematics approach, cover only some but not all features of the leaf spring suspension. As shown here, the five-link model, which incorporates a quasi-static solution of the leaf spring compliance, provides a very practical model. It is comparatively lean and provides results of sufficient accuracy in the whole application range. KW - beam-model KW - commercial vehicles KW - design kinematics KW - five-Link model KW - Leaf spring suspension KW - vehicle dynamics Y1 - 2021 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-oth-regensburg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2454 VL - 60 IS - 8 SP - 2871 EP - 2889 PB - Taylor&Francis ER -