Steering Shaft Separation with a Collision Involved Heavy Duty Steering Gear Exponent Incorporated

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Larson, Larson, author.

Contributor:

Mikhailov, Michael

Retallack, Charles

Conference Name:

WCX World Congress Experience (2018-04-10 : Detroit, Michigan, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 2018

Summary:

A crash of a medium duty truck led to a study of the failure mechanism of the truck's steering system. The truck, after being involved in a multi-vehicle vehicle collision, was found with its steering input shaft disconnected from the steering gear. The question arose whether the steering gear failure was a result of the collision, or causative to the collision. An in-depth investigation was conducted into whether forces on the vehicle due to the collision could cause the steering shaft to separate from the steering gear. Additionally, the performance of the steering gear with the adjuster nut progressively backed off was studied to determine the feedback a driver would receive if the steering gear came progressively apart. From the results of these studies, conclusions with regard to the crash causation were reached

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Publisher Number:

2018-01-0524

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license