Dynamic characteristics of hydraulic pipelines of steering system of articulated vehicles

For articulated vehicles steering system, the pipelines characteristics have great effects on the steering system performance, the impacts can not be ignored. Based on power bond graph-block diagram method and SIMULINK software, the general mathematical model of the hydraulic pipelines to the load of the articulated vehicles steering system was established. The dynamic characteristics of hydraulic pipelines of the articulated vehicles and the influence of the pipelines parameters on the articulated vehicles steering system were analyzed quantitatively. The study results show that for smaller diameter pipelines, the fluid resistance and fluid sense get larger, the fluid capacity gets smaller instead. The system oscillation amplitude is smaller and the dynamic response is faster; with an increase in the length of pipelines, the fluid sense, fluid resistance and fluid capacity are all increasing gradually, the system oscillation frequency reduces gradually, the oscillation amplitude also gradually decreases，but the dynamic response is getting slower. Increasing the oil volume elastic modulus of the system is conducive to improve the dynamic response speed and stability.