Vehicle Dynamic Modeling and Simulation: Comparing a Finite-Element Solution to a Multi-Body Dynamic Solution

Abstract

Army needs high-fidelity multibody dynamic modeling of wheeled and tracked vehicles for predicting: Stability (going over a rough terrain at high-speed, lane change, etc.) Mobility analysis (going over bumps and potholes). Fatigue life and durability of various vehicle components. Two modeling and simulation approaches: Traditional solution: Rigid/Flexible Multibody Dynamics (MBD) codes. Alternate solution: Explicit Finite Element (FE) codes.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA577532

Entities

People

  • Paramsothy Jayakumar
  • Tamer Wasfy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Dynamics
  • Energy Conservation
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Fatigue Life
  • Frequency
  • Friction
  • Ground Vehicles
  • Handbooks
  • Information Operations
  • Manipulators
  • Simulations
  • Stress Analysis
  • Systems Engineering
  • Tracked Vehicles
  • Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Pavement Materials Engineering.