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Developing a truck rollover risk calculator for South Africa

Author: Ferreira, A ; De Saxe, C ; Steenkamp, Anton J ; Nordengen, P Date: Jul 2022 The Static Rollover Threshold (SRT) is an important metric for characterising a heavy vehicle’s inherent stability and risk of rollover. Current methods of assessing SRT include a tilt-table test and multi-body dynamics simulation which can ... Read more
Improving car-carrier safety through Performance-Based Standards

Author: De Saxe, C Date: Oct 2012 In this presentation, the author discusses aspects of his MSc research, including outlining the development and application of a low-speed vehicle manoeuvrability model and presenting the PBS assessment results for one particular car-carrier design. Read more
Performance-based standards for South African car-carriers

Author: De Saxe, C Date: Dec 2012 Until recently, car-carriers in South Africa operated under abnormal load permits allowing a finite relaxation of legal height and length limits. This practice is being phased out, and exemption will only be granted if a car-carrier complies ... Read more
Tail swing performance of the South African car-carrier fleet

Author: De Saxe, C ; Kienhofer, F ; Nordengen, Paul A Date: Sep 2012 The practice of issuing of abnormal load permits to South African car-carriers (allowing a 300 mm increase in height and 500 mm increase in length) is being phased out. Such allowances will only be granted if a car-carrier complies with the ... Read more
Vehicle safety performance improvements using a performance-based standards approach: four case studies

Author: Nordengen, Paul A ; Kienhöfer, F ; De Saxe, C Date: 2014 As part of a performance-based standards (PBS) research programme for heavy vehicles in South Africa, a need was identified to design, manufacture and operate a number of PBS or Smart Truck demonstration vehicles. The purpose of the demonstration ... Read more
A visual template-matching method for articulation angle measurement

Author: De Saxe, C ; Cebon, D Date: Sep 2015 Active control systems for heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) are becoming more sophisticated, necessitating more extensive and sophisticated instrumentation. For articulated HGVs, articulation angle sensing is crucial for most such systems and ... Read more

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