Adams Tire
Adams Tire software is a module you use with Adams Car, Adams Solver, or Adams View to add tires to your mechanical model and to simulate maneuvers such as braking, steering, acceleration, free-rolling, or skidding. Adams Tire lets you model the forces and torques that act on a tire as it moves over roadways or irregular terrain.
Adams Tire is a set of shared object libraries that Adams Solver calls through the Adams DIFSUB, GFOSUB, GSESUB subroutines. These subroutines calculate the forces and moments that tires exert on a vehicle as a result of the interaction between the tires and road surface.
You can use Adams Tire to model tires for either vehicle-handling, ride and comfort, and vehicle-durability analyses.
■Handling analyses are useful for studying vehicle dynamic responses to steering, braking, and throttle inputs. For example, you can analyze the lateral accelerations produced for a given steering input at a given vehicle speed.
■Ride and comfort analyses are useful for assessing the vehicle's vibrations due to uneven roads with short wavelength obstacles (shorter than tire circumference), such as level crossings, grooves, or brick roads.
3D contact analyses are useful for generating road load histories and stress and fatigue studies that require component force and acceleration calculation. These studies can help you calculate the effects of road profiles, such as pothole, curb, or Belgian block.