Multi-body Versus Block-Oriented Approach in Suspension Dynamics of a Military Tracked Tank
2009-01-0443
04/20/2009
- Event
- Content
- The superior mobility of a military vehicle provides the combat crew with a tactical advantage through increased cross country speed. The suspension system plays a fundamental role in evaluating a vehicle mobility. A mathematical model that allows realistic simulations of vehicles operating in a wide spectrum of environmental conditions may help to lower costs and time required during their development.The paper concerns with vehicle-terrain interaction modeling, for a military tracked tank, through multi-body and block-oriented approaches. It is focused on the consequences that the suspension system has got on the comfort and on the performance. Thus through a multi-body software a realistic three dimensional model of a tracked fighting vehicle is developed. This virtual model confirms some experimental data available on its longitudinal dynamics. In order to simplify the multi-body simulations, a block-oriented approach is adopted to develop a model of the same vehicle.Some dynamic simulations are discussed in order to validate the proposed models and to compare the two different approaches.
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- 11
- Citation
- Velardocchia, M., Rondinelli, E., Tornincasa, S., and Bonisoli, E., "Multi-body Versus Block-Oriented Approach in Suspension Dynamics of a Military Tracked Tank," SAE Technical Paper 2009-01-0443, 2009, https://doi.org/10.4271/2009-01-0443.