Vehicle Dynamics Trucks Library
The Dymola Vehicle Dynamics Trucks Library provides designers of heavy vehicles with a purpose built environment for the modeling and simulation of heavy vehicles. The Vehicle Dynamics library has established a new benchmark for the simulation of ground vehicles, allowing the precise description of the subsystems, components and control attributes. The resulting simulation provides a complete analysis of the vehicle dynamic characteristics. A major benefit of the Dymola environment is the readily available capability for the description and archiving of components and subsystems, this facilitates the rapid and accurate modeling and simulation of many types of vehicle architecture. The VDL Trucks Library contains a wide variety of heavy vehicle components and subsystems.
Suspensions
The library contains many components that are specific to heavy vehicles, including axles, twin tires, couplings, frames, and cabins. The suspension designs in heavy vehicles are commonly axle-based for the steerable and non-steerable wheels. Leaf springs are commonly used for both axle guidance and load support. The constituent models may account for the nonlinear kinematic effects.
Suspension load characteristics vary from linear to tabular or physical models such as air springs. The frame elasticity influences the load distribution between the axles and thus the available grip from the tires.
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