In-Plane Flexible Ring Tire Model Development for Ride Comfort & Braking/Driving Performance Analysis under Straight-line Driving Condition 2015-01-0628
Vehicle tire performance is an important consideration for vehicle handling, stability, mobility, and ride comfort as well as durability. Significant efforts have been dedicated to tire modeling in the past, but there is still room to improve its accuracy. In this study, a detailed in-plane flexible ring tire model is proposed, where the tire belt is discretized, and each discrete belt segment is considered as a rigid body attached to a number of parallel tread blocks. The mass of each belt segment is accumulated at its geometric center. To test the proposed in-plane tire model, a full-vehicle model is integrated with the tire model for simulation under a special driving scenario: acceleration from rest for a few seconds, then deceleration for a few seconds on a flat-level road, and finally constant velocity on a rough road. The simulation results indicate that the tire model is able to generate tire/road contact patch forces that yield reasonable vehicle dynamic responses.
Citation: Li, B., Yang, X., Zhang, Y., and Yang, J., "In-Plane Flexible Ring Tire Model Development for Ride Comfort & Braking/Driving Performance Analysis under Straight-line Driving Condition," SAE Technical Paper 2015-01-0628, 2015, https://doi.org/10.4271/2015-01-0628. Download Citation
Author(s):
Bin Li, Xiaobo Yang, Yunqing Zhang, James Yang
Affiliated:
Texas Tech University, Oshkosh Corporation, Huazhong University of Science and Tech
Pages: 10
Event:
SAE 2015 World Congress & Exhibition
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Related Topics:
Simulation and modeling
Vehicle handling
Tires
Vehicle acceleration
Mobility
Comfort
Roads and highways
Durability
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