Vehicle Response to Kinematic Excitation, Numerical Simulation Versus Experiment

Jozef Melcer, Eva Merčiaková, Mária Kúdelčíková and Veronika Valašková
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Jozef Melcer: Department of Structural Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Zilina, 01009 Zilina, Slovakia
Eva Merčiaková: Department of Structural Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Zilina, 01009 Zilina, Slovakia
Mária Kúdelčíková: Department of Structural Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Zilina, 01009 Zilina, Slovakia
Veronika Valašková: Department of Structural Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Zilina, 01009 Zilina, Slovakia

Mathematics, 2021, vol. 9, issue 6, 1-23

Abstract: The article is devoted to the numerical simulation and experimental verification of a vehicle’s response to kinematic excitation caused by driving along an asphalt road. The source of kinematic excitation was road unevenness, which was mapped by geodetic methods. Vertical unevenness was measured in 0.25 m increments in two longitudinal profiles of the road spaced two meters apart with precise leveling realized by geodetic digital levels. A space multi-body computational model of a Tatra 815 heavy truck was adopted. The model had 15 degrees of freedom. Nine degrees of freedom were tangible and six degrees of freedom were intangible. The equations of motion were derived in the form of second-order ordinary differential equations and were solved numerically by the Runge–Kutta method. A custom computer program in MATLAB was created for numerical simulation of vehicle movement (eps = 2 ?52 ). The program allowed simulation of quantities such as deflections, speeds, accelerations at characteristic points of the vehicle, and static or dynamic components of contact forces arising between the wheel and the road. The response of the vehicle (acceleration at characteristic points) at different speeds was experimentally tested. The experiment was numerically simulated and the results were mutually compared. The basic statistical characteristics of experimentally obtained and numerically simulated signals and their power spectral densities were compared.

Keywords: numerical simulation; experimental test; heavy truck; kinematic quantities; statistical characteristics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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