Abstract: Description of tire model development using the finite element (FE) method is presented. Three-dimensional tire-pavement contact stresses were predicted for braking, traction, and free rolling using the FE method. Measured ...

Abstract: The finite-element method was used to quantify the effect of temperature and speed on contact area, deflection, and three-dimensional contact stresses of a free-rolling wide-base tire. The tire model comprised material ...

Abstract: The aim of the present paper is to set forth a method for the optimum synthesis of planar mechanisms. The method in question can be applied in the case of any mechanism and kinematic ...

Abstract: The multiobjective optimization of a four-degree-of-freedom symmetric parallel manipulator for Schönflies-motion generation is the subject of this paper. First, the inverse positioning problem ...

Abstract: In mechanism design and in the particular case of the parallel manipulator, most optimization problems involve simultaneously optimizing more than one objective function. In this paper, a method ...

Abstract: The Mechanistic-empirical pavement design guide (MEPDG) provides theoretically superior methodology, as compared with its predecessor, for the design and analysis of pavement structures. The mechanistic part refers to ...