Citation

Wallin M, Hamed AM, Jayakumar P, Gorsich DJ, Letherwood MD, Shabana AA. Int. J. Veh. Perform. 2016; 2(2): 140-165.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Inderscience Publishers)

DOI

10.1504/IJVP.2016.075351

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

In this paper, the floating frame of reference and absolute nodal coordinate formulations (ANCF) are explained in detail and used in the stress analysis of the track links in a complex three-dimensional tracked vehicle model. One of the most common areas of failure for such tracked vehicles is attributed to the failure of the track link chains, and therefore, performing a detailed fully coupled stress analysis, as the one described in this investigation, is necessary in order to obtain more accurate stress results and avoid failure of such complex vehicle systems.


Keywords: multibody system dynamics; floating frame of reference; FFR; absolute nodal coordinate formulation; ANCF; tracked vehicles; rigid body approach; dynamic stresses; stress analysis; track links; vehicle modelling; 3D modelling; link failure; track link chains.

Language: en