About Adams Driveline
You can use Adams Driveline, part of the Adams® 2024.1 suite of software, stand alone or as a plugin for Adams Car. You use Adams Driveline to model drivelines: to create virtual prototypes of driveline subsystems and analyze the virtual prototypes much like you would analyze the physical prototypes.
Using Adams Driveline, you can quickly create assemblies of suspensions and full vehicles, including driveline components, and then analyze them to understand their performance and behavior. Learn about
Building Models.
You create assemblies by defining vehicle subsystems, such as front and rear suspensions, steering gears, anti-roll bars, and bodies. You base these subsystems on their corresponding Adams Driveline templates. For example, Adams Driveline includes templates for engine, gearbox, prop shafts, and differentials.
If you have expert-user access, you can also base your subsystems on custom templates that you create using the Adams Driveline Template Builder (see
Interface Modes).
When you analyze an assembly, Adams Driveline applies the
Analysis inputs that you specify. For example, for a full-vehicle analysis you can specify inputs to:
■Apply a specific torque to your driveline model (impulse, step, ramp, loadcase, and so on).
■Define a different friction coefficient for different wheels in your model.
■Define a slope of your road to study the performance of your driveline model.
Based on the analysis results, you can quickly alter the driveline geometry and analyze the driveline again to evaluate the effects of the alterations. Once you complete the analysis of your model, you can share your work with others. You can also print plots of the vehicle dynamic responses. In addition, you can access other users’ models without overwriting their data.
See the section
Adams File Types for more information on Adams Driveline file types.
Benefits of Adams Driveline
Adams Driveline enables you to work faster and smarter, letting you have more time to study and understand how design changes affect vehicle performance.
Using Adams Driveline you can:
■Explore the performance of your design and refine your design before building and testing a physical prototype.
■Analyze design changes much faster and at a lower cost than physical prototype testing would require. For example, you can change springs with a few mouse clicks instead of waiting for a mechanic to install new ones in your physical prototype before re-evaluating your design.
■Vary the kinds of analyses faster and more easily than if you had to modify instrumentation, test fixtures, and test procedures.
■Work in a more secure environment without the fear of losing data from instrument failure or losing testing time because of poor weather conditions.
■Run analyses and what-if scenarios without the dangers associated with physical testing.