PSI - Issue 77

Francisco Castro et al. / Procedia Structural Integrity 77 (2026) 611–630 Francisco Castro/ Structural Integrity Procedia 00 (2026) 000 – 000

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Figure 15 – Lateral acceleration and roll angle variation results from dynamic braking maneuver. a) empty; b) load case 1; c) load case 2; d) load case 3; e) load case 4; f) load case 5. Table 5 – CoG height estimation for the cornering movement and respective error in measurements related to the static measurements. Vehicle real [m] estimation [m] Absolute error [m] Percentage error [%]

Load case: empty

0.102 0.103 0.105 0.107 0.119 0.117

0.094 0.094 0.102 0.112 0.109 0.112

0.008 0.009 0.003 0.005 0.010 0.005

7.716 8.642 2.817 4.836 8.458

Load case 1 Load case 2 Load case 3 Load case 4 Load case 5

3.884 The results demonstrate that the proposed method can estimate the vehicle’s CoG height under dynamic cornering maneuvers. The maximum error value obtained was around 8.5 %. As expected, during the road tests, a roll motion