Full-Vehicle Analysis: Static Vehicle Characteristics

Full-Vehicle Assembly

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

Assembly Variant

Select the assembly variant you want to analyze. The menu lists all full-vehicle assembly variants of the chosen assembly.

Switches to the selected variant and adds the required testrig as needed.

Output Prefix

Enter a string that specifies the Analysis Output Name. The string can contain only alphanumeric characters and underscores (_). Adams Car appends the suffix _svc to form the complete analysis name. For example, if you enter test_45 as the output prefix, the analysis name becomes test_45_svc.

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.

Simulation Mode

Select interactive, background, graphical, event or files 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.

Tips on Entering File Names in Text Boxes.

Import and visualize road graphics from file.

Remove road or path graphics.

View road / path file in info window.

Edit road / path file in road builder or text editor.

Front Sprung Mass %

SVC performs a calculation of the unsprung mass for the front and rear suspension. In order to make this calculation, each part must be assigned a sprung mass percentage.

For the front unsprung mass calculation, select one of the following:

Rear Sprung Mass %

For the rear unsprung mass calculation, select one of the following:

If you select Individual part for Front/Rear Sprung Mass %, Adams Car displays the following option:

Edit values of sprung mass % for individual part (Enter a value from range 0 to 100). In addition, this table can be used to assign (or unassign) parts to either the front or rear SVC array. See Static Vehicle Characteristics: Sprung Mass Table.

Show Report

Select to show a report summarizing the full-vehicle static vehicle characteristics calculated.

Create Event Log File

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

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.

Select to display an Alignment dialog box where you can set toe, camber and caster alignment values.