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Total Vehicle Weight

Total vehicle weight.

Computed by:

SVCTMA

Input Variables Used:

■Front and rear tire force MARKER statement identifiers from ARRAY statements 9908 and 9909
■Global marker (gblm) from ARRAY/9910

Method:

SVC calls the INFO subroutine to obtain the vertical tire forces for all four tires. These forces are summed and then the sum is divided by the acceleration of gravity along the global z-axis thus converting the sum to mass units.