Main contant:
Heavy goods vehicles are essential to modern urbanized society: transporting food and everything needed to support city life; removing waste and providing all goods and materials needed for industry to function. However, heavy goods vehicles have complex dynamics. They can have multiple coupled vehicle units with high centres of mass and nonlinear suspensions. They generate large motions, high dynamic tire forces and damaging interactions with roads and bridges. They have a multitude of safety challenges, including roll-over, jack-knife, poor emergency stopping performance due to their pneumatic brakes, poor manoeuvrability and challenging interactions with vulnerable road users. Their carbon emissions are high and difficult to abate and their non exhaust emissions due to tire and brake wear have detrimental impacts on human health and the environment. This presentation will discuss four decades of research into the dynamics of heavy goods vehicles: aimed at improving their safety, productivity and environmental impact.
Resume of the presenter：
David Cebon is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Prof Cebon has authored or co-authored over 300 papers on safety, manoeuvrability, productivity, energy consumption, and environmental impacts of heavy goods vehicles. He has also published research articles on road and bridge damage due to heavy goods vehicles. Prof Cebon has received several awards from the IMechE and IEEE, including the Edwin Walker Prize for Computing and Data Communications, the Crompton-Lanchester Medal, the Thomas Hawksley Gold Medal, the Safety Award for Mechanical Engineering, and recently the ITSS Presidential Prize for Sustainability in Transportation. He was the first non-US recipient of the L. Ray Buckendale Award of the Society of Automotive Engineers for his work on vehicle-road interaction. Prof Cebon is the Director of the Centre for Sustainable Road Freight (SRF) and the Research Director of the Cambridge Vehicle Dynamics Consortium (CVDC).
