FTire: a physically based application-oriented tyre model for use with detailed MBS and finite-element suspension models

Being a typical representative of detailed mechanical tyre models that are less than true finite-element (FE) models, the present author's flexible-ring tyre model FTire is presented here. FTire development started in 1998, using certain ideas and numerical concepts of the present author's 'coarse-mesh' FE model DNS-Tire and the spatial nonlinear 'rigid-ring' model BRIT. This first version of FTire has been essentially improved since then. It is one of the advanced tyre models of MSC.ADAMS and is also implemented into several 'in-house' simulation programs at different companies, and as a subsystem block in MATLAB/Simulink. During participation in the tyre model performance test benchmark, interfaces had been implemented for the most widely used MBS packages for automotive simulations. Recently, FTire has been completed by a new rigid-ring model (called RTire), and a redesign of DNS-Tire (called FETire). RTire, FTire and FETire together set up a full tyre model family. However, only FTire is discussed here. For the covering abstract see ITRD E127429.

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  • Accession Number: 01014268
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
  • ISBN: 0-415-392-632
  • Files: ITRD
  • Created Date: Dec 22 2005 2:08PM