Full-Vehicle Analysis: Data Driven

Tips on Entering File Names in Text Boxes.

Full-Vehicle Assembly

Select the Full-Vehicle Assembly you want to analyze. The menu lists all full-vehicle assemblies currently open in your session.

Output Prefix

Enter a string that specifies the Analysis Output Name. The string can contain only alphanumeric characters and underscores (_). Adams Car generates the output files following this naming convention: the output files are named output_prefix_external_file_name to form the complete analysis name. For example, if you enter test_45 as the output prefix, and if you submit a sine_steer.dri loadcase file, then the output file name becomes test_45_sine_steer.

Solver Settings File

Select one or more files (extension .ssf) defining the solver settings to be temporarily applied for this simulation (optional).

Opens the Solver Settings File (extension .ssf) editor dialog box.

End Time

Specify the time, in seconds, at which the analysis ends.

Number of Steps / Step Size / Step Frequency

Select either of the following:

Mode of Simulation

Select interactive, background, graphical, files or event only.

See Mode of Simulation: Interactive, Mode of Simulation: Graphical, Mode of Simulation: Background, Mode of Simulation: Files_only, Mode of Simulation: Event_only.

Enter the name of a file that contains road data information. The tire subsystems use this information to calculate the tire/road interaction forces.

Initial Velocity

Enter the initial speed of the vehicle in the units specified in the pull-down menu to the right of the Initial Velocity text box.

Driver Input File(s)

Enter one or more driver input file(s) from any Adams Car Database. The file(s) contains all the inputs that will be applied to the full-vehicle assembly.

Initial Steer Value

Enter a real value that fixes the initial steer value at the start of the analysis. Adams Car maintains this steer value until the analysis starts.

Create Event Log File

Select if you want Adams Car to write information about the assembled model and analysis to an Analysis Log File.

Add Vehicle Dynamics Requests

Activates requests computing certain vehicle dynamics outputs during the full vehicle event.

Some of these additional requests are required for standard post-processing (reports and plots).

Compute Characteristic Values

Activates requests computing suspension and steering characteristics during the full vehicle event.

The additional requests are equivalent to those previously already available for suspension analysis.

See Output of Suspension Analyses in Adams Car - Running Analysis for more details.

Select to display a dialog box where you can add multi-line comments to any entity, to describe its purpose and function. Adams Car displays different comments dialog boxes, depending on the entity type for which you want to record comments:

Learn about Recording Comments.