Full-Vehicle Analysis: Throttle-On-In-Turn

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 _ton to form the complete analysis name. For example, if you enter test_45 as the output prefix, the analysis name becomes test_45_ton.

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, 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.

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.

Number of Steps / Step Size / Step Frequency

Select either of the following:

Gear Position

Specify the initial gear position for the analysis.

Suggested Gear Position based on desired Initial Velocity (or equivalent lateral acceleration and curvature radius for constant radius cornering events). The button suggests the gear position for the event in order for the engine speed to be in the range between stall speed and max revolution limit.

Lateral Acceleration (G's)

Enter the target lateral acceleration that will be achieved at the start of the acceleration event.

Turn Radius

Enter the turn radius (in length units) of the skidpad on which the vehicle will perform the analysis.

Length Units

Select the length units for the turn radius.

Turn Direction

Select a right or a left turn.

Steering Input

Select either of the following:

Longitudinal Acceleration (G's)

Specify the longitudinal acceleration

Maximum Acceleration Duration

Enter the time for which Adams Car will accelerate vehicle.

Quasi-Static Straight-Line Setup

Select to perform a quasi-static prephase analysis before running the transient analysis on your full-vehicle assemblies.

If you do not select this option, Adams Car performs a SETTLE analysis.

For more information about the different quasi-static setup method keywords (such as SETTLE and STRAIGHT), see Structure of Event Files.

Entry Distance

Enter a numerical value that defines the initial straight-line section of the analysis. Use the pull-down menu to select the unit definitions; for example, 20 m.

Settle Time

Enter a value that describes the duration of the intermediate mini-maneuver INITIAL_SET. See Creating Mini-Maneuvers.

Learn more about INITIAL_SET at Structure of Event Files.

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.

Construct road graphics from event user inputs.

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