Abstract: In this investigation, the flexible tire model based on the absolute nodal coordinate formulation (ANCF) is integrated with LuGre tire friction model for evaluation of the longitudinal tire dynamics under severe braking ...

Abstract: In transient vehicle maneuvers, structural tire deformation due to the large load transfer causes abrupt change in normal contact pressure and slip distribution over the contact patch, and it has a dominant effect on ...

Abstract: In this study, model order reduction of high-fidelity off-road mobility models is explored to address the computational intensity of nonlinear finite element deformable tire–soil interaction models. To this end, a model ...

Abstract: A data-driven model capable of predicting time-domain solutions of a high-fidelity tire–soil interaction model is developed to enable quick prediction of mobility capabilities on deformable terrain. The adaptive model order ...

Abstract: In this investigation, a continuum mechanics based bilinear shear deformable shell element is developed using the absolute nodal coordinate formulation (ANCF) for the large deformation analysis of multibody shell structures. ...

Abstract: A physics-based deformable tire–soil interaction simulation capability that can be fully integrated into the monolithic multibody dynamics computer algorithm is developed by extending a deformable tire model based on the ...

Abstract: A high-fidelity computational terrain dynamics model plays a crucial role in accurate vehicle mobility performance prediction under various maneuvering scenarios on deformable terrain. Although many computational models ...

Abstract: A high-fidelity computational terrain dynamics model plays a crucial role in accurate vehicle mobility performance prediction under various maneuvering scenarios on deformable terrain. Although many computational models ...

Abstract: In this work, a scalable parallel computing scheme for the hierarchical multiscale off-road vehicle mobility simulation capability is developed with the hybrid message passing interface (MPI)/OpenMP framework, and it is ...

Abstract: In this study, a data-driven hydrodynamics model is proposed to enable quick prediction of vehicle mobility in shallow water, considering the effect of tire–soil interaction. To this end, a high-fidelity coupled vehicle–water ...