Tracked Vehicle Dynamics Modeling and Simulation Methodology, with Control, using RecurDyn Software Package

Abstract

Many Army vehicles require tracks in order to meet the tough mobility requirements for the Army mission profile. Modeling and Simulation (M&S) provides a large cost-savings and offers a quick turn-around when addressing vehicle performance issues. Once a baseline model is built for a given system, the model can be changed quickly to address different load or usage profiles and to determine the overall affect on the vehicle and its performance. Tracked vehicles present a number of challenges, however, due to the large number of interactions between all the track and suspension components. Prior methods for analyzing tracked vehicle performance through M&S led to either simplified vehicle models or very long compute times due to the level of detail required to properly model tracked vehicles.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA552458

Entities

People

  • Joseph Raymond

Organizations

  • United States Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Computers
  • Dynamics
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Mission Profiles
  • Mobility
  • Reliability
  • Simulations
  • Steady State
  • Tracked Vehicles
  • United States Government
  • Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.