An intermediate processor has been developed to enable flexible body vehicle dynamic analysis by interfacing between a commercial finite element program ANSYS and a vehicle dynamics program AUTODYN7. The program carries out inertia relief computation ...
An intermediate processor has been developed to enable flexible body vehicle dynamic analysis by interfacing between a commercial finite element program ANSYS and a vehicle dynamics program AUTODYN7. The program carries out inertia relief computation for the static correction mode and diagonalizes consistent mass matrix in order to provide lumped mass entries and lumped rotary inertia entries to the flexible body equations of motion. Using DADS IP program, the developed program has been verified. The capabilities of the program have been proved by the DADS Jeep simulation.<br/>