@article{ref1,
title="An integrated framework for high-performance, high-fidelity simulation of ground vehicle-tyre-terrain interaction",
journal="International journal of vehicle performance",
year="2019",
author="Serban, Radu and Negrut, Dan and Recuero, Antonio and Jayakumar, Paramsothy",
volume="5",
number="3",
pages="233-259",
abstract="Assessing the mobility of off-road vehicles is a complex task that most often falls back on semi-empirical approaches to quantify the tire-terrain interaction. We introduce a high-fidelity ground vehicle mobility simulation framework that uses physics-based models of the vehicle, tyres, and terrain to factor in both tyre flexibility and soil deformation. The tyres are modelled using a nonlinear finite element approach that involves layers of orthotropic shell elements. The soil is represented as a large collection of rigid elements that interact through contact, friction, and cohesive forces. The high-fidelity vehicle models incorporate suspension, steering, driveline, and powertrain models. To alleviate the prohibitive computational costs associated with a coupled simulation of the overall problem, we propose a decoupled approach implemented as an explicit, force-displacement co-simulation framework which is demonstrated on several full-vehicle on soft soil simulations. UNCLASSIFIED: Distribution Statement A. Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. #28937.   Keywords: Chrono; vehicle-terrain interaction; flexible tyres; granular terrain; co-simulation; force-displacement coupling; hybrid parallel computing; MPI; message passing interface; OpenMP.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1745-3194",
doi="10.1504/IJVP.2019.100698",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJVP.2019.100698"
}