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Vehicle-Terrain Interaction Simulation With Parallelized Multiscale Moving Soil Patch Model
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Vehicle-Terrain Interaction Simulation With Parallelized Multiscale Moving Soil Patch Model

Hiroki Yamashita, Guanchu Chen, Yeefeng Ruan, Paramsothy Jayakumar and Hiroyuki Sugiyama
Volume 6: 15th International Conference on Multibody Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Control, Vol.6
ASME 2019 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Anaheim, California, USA, Aug. 18 - 21, 2019
08/18/2019
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2019-97920

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Abstract

Abstract Although many physics-based off-road mobility simulation models are proposed and utilized for vehicle performance evaluation as well as for understanding of tire-soil interaction problems, full vehicle simulation on deformable terrain requires addressing the computational complexity associated with the large dimensional physics-based terrain dynamics models for practical use. This paper, therefore, presents a hierarchical multiscale tire-soil interaction model that is fully integrated into parallelized off-road mobility simulation framework. In particular, a co-simulation procedure is developed for full vehicle simulation with multiscale terrain dynamics models by exploiting the moving soil patch technique. To this end, a detailed off-road vehicle simulation model is divided into five subsystems: a multibody vehicle subsystem and four tire-soil subsystems composed of nonlinear FE tires and multiscale moving soil patches. The tire-soil subsystems are interfaced with the vehicle subsystem by MPI through force-displacement coupling. It is demonstrated that the proposed framework allows for alleviating computational intensity of a full vehicle simulation that involves complex hierarchical multiscale terrain dynamics models by effectively distributing computational loads with co-simulation techniques.

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