- •1 Adams/View Basics 1
- •2 Building Models in adams/View 13
- •3 Simulating Models in adams/View 46
- •4 Examples 53
- •5 Introduce adams/Car 113
- •6 Introducing Analyses in adams/Car 116
- •7 Creating and Simulating Suspensions 129
- •8 Template Builder Tutorial 141
- •SectionⅠ- adams/View
- •1.1.1 Steps in Modeling and Simulating
- •1.1.2 Build Your Model
- •Figure 1.1 Steps in Modeling and Simulating
- •1.1.3 Test and Validate Your Model
- •Validating Simulation Results
- •1.1.4 Refine Your Model and Iterate
- •1.1.5 Customize and Automate adams/View
- •1.2 Working with the adams/View
- •1.2.1 Starting adams/View
- •1.2.2 Adams/View Main Window
- •Figure 1.2 Initial adams/View Window
- •1.2.3 Starting a New Modeling Session
- •Figure 1.3. Welcome Dialog Box
- •1.3 Defining the Modeling Environment
- •1.3.1 Specifying the Type of Coordinate System
- •1. Types of Coordinate Systems
- •Figure 1.4 adams/View Coordinate System
- •2. About Orientation Angles and Rotations
- •3. Setting the Default Coordinate System
- •1.3.2 Setting Units of Measurement
- •1.3.3 Specifying Gravitational Force
- •1.3.4 Specifying Working Directory
- •2 Building Models in adams/View
- •2.1 Creating Parts
- •Figure 2.1 Geometric Modeling Palette and Tool Stack
- •2.1.1 Creating Construction Geometry
- •Table 2.1 Types of construction geometry
- •1. Defining Points
- •2. Defining Coordinate System Markers
- •Figure 2.2 Marker Screen Icons
- •3. Creating Lines and Polylines
- •4. Creating Arcs and Circles
- •5. Creating Splines
- •2.1.2 Creating Solid Geometry
- •Table2.2 adams/View Solid Geometry
- •1. Creating a Box
- •2. Creating Two-Dimensional Plane
- •3. Creating a Cylinder
- •4. Creating a Sphere
- •5. Creating a Frustum
- •6. Creating a Torus
- •7. Creating a Link
- •8. Creating a plate
- •9. Creating an Extrusion
- •2.1.3 Creating Complex Geometry
- •1. Chaining Wire Construction Geometry
- •2. Combining Geometry
- •2.1.4 Adding Features to Geometry
- •2.1.5 Working with Point Masses
- •2.2 Modifying Parts
- •2.2.1 Modifying Rigid Body Geometry
- •2.2.2 Modifying Part Properties
- •2.3 About Constraining Your Model
- •2.3.1 Types of Constraints
- •2.3.2 Accessing the Constraint Creation Tools
- •Figure 2.3 Constraint Palette and Tool Stacks
- •2.3.3 Working with Joints
- •2.3.3.1 Working with Idealized Joints
- •Table1 2.3 Simple joints in adams/View
- •Table1 2.4 Complex joints in adams/View
- •2.3.3.2 Working with Joint Primitives
- •Table1 2.5 Joint Primitives in adams/View
- •2.3.3.3 Working with Higher-Pair Constraints
- •2.3.3.4 Working with Motions generators
- •1. Joint Motion
- •2. Point Motion
- •2.4 Applying Forces to Your Model
- •2.4.1 Accessing the Force Tools
- •Figure 2.4 Create Forces Palette and Tool Stack
- •2.4.2 Constructing Applied Forces
- •2.4.3 Constructing Flexible Connectors
- •2.4.2.1. Working with Bushings
- •2.4.2.2 Working with Translational Spring-Dampers
- •2.4.2.3 Adding a Torsion Spring
- •2.4.2.4 Adding a Massless Beam
- •2.4.2.5 Adding a Field Element
- •3 Simulating Models in adams/View
- •3.1 Types of Simulations
- •3.2 Accessing the Simulation Controls
- •Figure 3.1 Simulation Controls
- •3.3 Performing an Interactive Simulation
- •3.4 Viewing and Controlling Animations
- •3.4.1 About Animating Your Simulation Results
- •3.4.2 Accessing the Animation Controls
- •Figure 3.2 Animation Container and Animation Control Dialog Box
- •3.4.3 Playing Animations
- •Table 3.1 Animation Play Options
- •4 Examples
- •4.1 The Latch Design Problem
- •4.1.1 Introducing the Latch Design Problem
- •Figure 4.1 Physical Model of Hand Latch Design
- •Figure 4.2 adams/View Latch Model
- •4.1.2 Building Model
- •Figure 4.3 Latch in Build Phase
- •1. To start adams/View and Setting Up Your Work Environment
- •2. Creating Design Points
- •Table 4.1 Points Coordinate Locations
- •3. Creating the Pivot
- •4. Creating the Handle
- •5. Creating the Hook
- •Table 4.2 Extrusion Coordinate Values
- •6. Creating the Slider
- •Table 4.3 Points Coordinate Locations
- •7. Connecting the Parts Using Revolute Joints
- •8. Simulating the Motion of Your Model
- •9. Saving Your Database
- •4.1.3 Testing Your First Prototype
- •1. Creating the Ground Block
- •2. Adding a Three-Dimensional Contact
- •3. Adding a Spring
- •4. Creating a Handle Force
- •5. Creating a Measure on the Spring Force
- •6. Creating an Angle Measure
- •Table 4.4 Overcenter_angle Measure Markers
- •Figure 4.4 Graphical Representation of overcenter_angle
- •7. Creating a Sensor
- •8. Saving Your Model
- •9. Simulating Your Model
- •4.1.4 Validating Results Against Physical Test Data
- •1. Importing Physical Test Data
- •2. Creating a Plot Using Physical Test Data
- •Figure 4.5 adams/PostProcessor
- •3. Modifying Your Plot Layout
- •4. Creating a Plot Using Virtual Test Data
- •5. Saving Your Model
- •4.1.5 Refining Your Design
- •1. Creating Design Variables
- •2. Reviewing Design Variable Values
- •4.1.6 Iterating Your Design
- •1. Performing a Manual Study
- •2. Running a Design Study
- •Dv_1 versus Trial plot Overcenter_angle plot
- •Design study report
- •3. Examining the Results of Design Studies
- •Table 4.5 Design Studies Results
- •4.1.7 Optimizing Your Design
- •1. Modifying Design Variables
- •Table 4.6 Design Variable Limits
- •2. Running an Optimization
- •4.2 The Front Suspension Design Problem
- •4.2.1 Introducing the Front Suspension Design Problem
- •Figure 4.6 Physical Model of Front Suspension
- •Figure 4.7 adams/View Front Suspension Model
- •4.2.2 Building Model
- •1. To start adams/View and Setting Up Your Work Environment
- •2. Creating Design Points
- •Table 4.7 Points Coordinate Locations
- •8. Creating the Knuckle
- •9. Creating the Wheel
- •10. Creating the Test_Patch
- •11. Creating the Spring
- •12. Creating the Spherical Joint
- •13. Creating the Fixed Joint
- •14. Creating the Revolute Joint
- •4.2.3 Testing the Front Suspension
- •2. Simulating the Motion of Your Model
- •3. Creating a Measure on the Kingpin_Inclination
- •Fig. The curve of the Kingpin_Inclination vs time
- •4. Creating a Measure on the Kingpin_Caster_Angle
- •5. Creating a Measure on the Front_Wheel Camber_Angle
- •6. Creating a Measure on the Front_Wheel Toe_Angle
- •7. Creating a Measure on the Sideways_Displacement of the Wheel
- •8. Creating a Measure on the Wheel_Travel
- •9. Creating curves on the Front Suspension characteristic
- •4.3 The Full Vehicle Design Problem
- •4.3.1 Creating Chassis Model
- •1. To start adams/View and Setting Up Your Work Environment
- •2. Creating Design Points
- •3. Creating Chassis
- •4.3.2 Creating Front Suspension Model
- •1. Creating Design Points
- •Table 4.8 Points Coordinate Locations
- •2. Creating Front Suspension
- •Figure 4.13 The body model of the chassis and the front suspension
- •3. Creating the Constraint Joint
- •4. Creating the Spring
- •Figure 4.14 The model of the chassis and the front suspension
- •4.3.3 Creating Steering System Model
- •1. Creating Design Points
- •Table 4.9 Points Coordinate Locations
- •2. Creating Steering System
- •Figure 4.15 The model of the steering trapezium
- •Figure 4.16 The model of the steering system
- •3. Creating the Constraint Joint
- •4.3.4 Creating Rear Suspension Model
- •1. Creating Design Points
- •Table 4.10 Points Coordinate Locations
- •2. Creating Rear Suspension
- •Figure 4.17 The model of the rear suspension
- •3. Creating the Constraint Joint
- •Figure 4.18 Creating the Revolute Joint
- •4. Creating the Spring
- •4.3.5 Creating Tire and Road
- •1. Creating Tire Property File
- •Figure 4.20 Analytical and Geometrical Representation of Tire
- •2. Creating Road Data File
- •3. Creating Tire and Road
- •Figure 4.21 The model of Tire
- •Figure 4.22 Full vehicle models
- •4.3.6 Testing the Full Vehicle
- •1. Creating Motion and Torque
- •Figure 4.23 Joint Motion Dialog Box
- •2. Creating curves on the vehicle characteristic
- •3. Simulation
- •5 Introduce adams/Car
- •5.1 What is adams/Car?
- •5.2 What You Can Do with adams/Car
- •5.3 How You Benefit from Using adams/Car
- •6 Introducing Analyses in adams/Car
- •6.1 About adams/Car Analyses
- •6.2 Types of Analyses
- •1. About Suspension Analyses
- •2. About Full-Vehicle Analyses
- •6.3 Introducing Suspension Analyses
- •6.3.1 Suspension Analysis Process
- •Figure 6.1 Suspension Analysis Process
- •6.3.2 Suspension Assembly Roles
- •6.3.3 Setting Suspension Parameters
- •6.3.4 Submitting Suspension Analyses
- •1. Specifying Number of Steps
- •Figure 6.2 Number of Inputs to Steps
- •2. Types of Suspension Analyses
- •6.4 Introducing Full-Vehicle Analyses
- •6.4.1 Full-Vehicle Analysis Process
- •Figure 6.3 Full-Vehicle Analysis Process
- •6.4.2 About the Full-Vehicle Analyses
- •1. Open-Loop Steering Analyses
- •2. Cornering Analyses
- •3. Straight-Line-Behavior Analyses
- •4. Course Analyses
- •5. Driver-Control-File-Driven Analysis (dcf Drive…)
- •6. Quasi-Static Analyses
- •7. Data-Driven Analysis
- •8. Adams/Driver Analyses
- •7 Creating and Simulating Suspensions
- •7.1 Starting adams/Car Standard Interface
- •7.2 Creating Suspension Assemblies
- •7.2.1 Creating a New Front Suspension Subsystem
- •1. Creating the front suspension subsystem:
- •Figure 7.1 Suspension Subsystem
- •2. To save the suspension subsystem
- •7.2.2 Creating a Suspension and Steering Assembly
- •Figure 7.2 Suspension and Steering Assembly
- •7.3 Performing a Baseline Parallel Wheel Travel Analysis
- •7.3.1 Defining Vehicle Parameters
- •7.3.2 Performing the Analysis
- •7.3.3 Animating the Results
- •7.4 Performing a Baseline Pull Analysis
- •7.4.1 Defining a Loadcase File
- •7.4.2 Performing the Analysis
- •7.4.3 Animating the Results
- •7.5 Modifying the Suspension and Steering Subsystem
- •7.5.1 Modifying Hardpoint Locations
- •7.5.2 Saving the Modified Subsystem
- •7.6 Performing an Analysis on the Modified Assembly
- •8 Template Builder Tutorial
- •Figure 8.1 MacPherson front suspension template model
- •8.1 Starting adams/Car Template Builder
- •Environment mdi_acar_usermode expert
- •8.2 Creating Topology for Your Template
- •8.2.1 Creating a Template
- •Figure 8.2 Main Window with Gravity Icon Displayed
- •8.2.2 Building Suspension Parts
- •1. Creating the Control Arm
- •Table 8.1 Wheel Carrier Hardpoints
- •Figure 8.3 Six hardpoints in the main window
- •2. To create the control arm part:
- •3. To create the control arm geometry:
- •8.2.3 Creating the Wheel Carrier
- •1. To create the hardpoints:
- •Table 8.2 Wheel Carrier Hardpoints
- •2. To create the wheel carrier part:
- •3. To add the wheel carrier link geometry:
- •8.2.4 Creating the Strut
- •8.2.5 Creating the Damper
- •1. To create a hardpoint:
- •2. To create the damper:
- •8.2.6 Defining the Spring
- •8.2.7 Creating the Tie Rod
- •8.2.8 Creating the Toe and Camber Variables
- •1. To create toe and camber variables:
- •8.2.9 Creating the Hub
- •1. To create a construction frame:
- •2. To create the hub part:
- •3. To create cylinder geometry for the hub:
- •8.2.10 Creating and Defining Attachments and Parameters
- •1. Defining the Translational Joint
- •2. Defining Control Arm Attachments
- •Figure 8.4 Create bushing Attachment dialog box
- •3. Defining the Strut Attachment
- •4. Defining Wheel Carrier Attachments
- •I Part: ._macpherson.Gel_tierod
- •5. Defining Hub Attachments
- •6. Defining Suspension Parameters
- •8.3 Creating a Suspension Subsystem
- •Table 8.3 Hardpoints To Be Modified
- •9 Creating and Simulating Full Vehicles
- •9.1 A Full-Vehicle Assembly
- •1. To open an assembly:
- •2. To create the Full-Vehicle assembly:
- •9.2 Performing a Single Lane-Change Analysis
- •1. Setting Up the Analysis
- •2. Animating the Results
- •3. Plotting the Results
- •Figure 9.1 Plot of Lateral Acceleration versus Time
- •9.3 Performing a Step Steer Analysis
- •9.4 Performing a Quasi-Static Steady-State Cornering Analysis
- •9.5 Performing a Baseline iso Lane-Change Analysis
- •9.6 Modifying the Full-Vehicle Assembly
- •1. To create a new spring property file:
- •2. To modify the springs:
- •Appendix a: adams/View keyboard shortcuts
- •Table 1. File Operation Shortcuts
- •Table 2. Edit Operation Shortcuts
- •Table 3. Display Operation Shortcuts
- •Viewing Operations Table 4. Viewing Operation Shortcuts
- •Table 5. Drawing Operation Shortcuts
- •Appendix b: adams/Car keyboard shortcuts
- •Table 1. File Operation Shortcuts
- •Table 2. Edit Operation Shortcuts
- •Table 3. Display Operation Shortcuts
- •Viewing Operations Table 4. Viewing Operation Shortcuts
- •References
1.1.3 Test and Validate Your Model
After you create your model or at any point in the modeling process, you can run tests of your model to ensure that it was created correctly and to verify its system characteristics. You test your model by:
Defining Results to Be Output
Performing a Simulation
Reviewing the Simulation Results
Validating Simulation Results
Defining Results to Be Output
When you run a simulation of your model, ADAMS/View automatically calculates predefined information for the objects in your model, such as displacements and velocities. You can also define measures or requests that ADAMS/View tracks during a simulation. You can measure almost any characteristic of the objects in your model, such as the force applied to a spring or the distance or angle between objects. As you run the simulation, ADAMS/View displays strip charts of the measures that you requested so you can view the results as the simulation occurs.
Performing a Simulation
After creating your model or at any point in the modeling process, you can run a simulation of the model to verify its:
Performance characteristics
Response to a set of operating conditions
To perform a simulation, ADAMS/View submits the model to MDI’s analysis engine, ADAMS/Solver, which formulates and solves the equations of motion for the model. As ADAMS/Solver performs the analysis, ADAMS/View displays an animation of your model in motion and displays strip charts tracking the measures that you specified.
ADAMS/View provides many different categories of simulations, including dynamic simulations, which calculate the dynamic motion of your model, static equilibrium simulations, and more. You can even use ADAMS/View to help you assemble your model.
Reviewing the Simulation Results
After a simulation is complete, you can rerun the animation of the simulation, pause it at any frame in the animation, or change the camera angle. In addition, you can view the results of the simulation by plotting them in ADAMS/PostProcessor.
ADAMS/PostProcessor lets you plot all of the measures that you specified, as well as plot the result components that ADAMS/View automatically generates during a simulation.
ADAMS/PostProcessor lets you zoom in on your plot, plot any of the result components against any other data, and view statistics about data in the plot, such as the slope of the curve or the curve’s minimum and maximum values. A plot can contain multiple axes and you can construct Bode and fast fourier transform (FFT) plots.
Validating Simulation Results
You can import numeric results from physical tests of a mechanical system and compare them to the results of simulations in ADAMS/View to validate the accuracy of your model. You can plot the test data over the ADAMS/View simulation results for quick and easy comparison.
1.1.4 Refine Your Model and Iterate
After you have run initial simulations to determine the basic motion of your model, you can refine your model by adding more complexity to it, such as adding friction between bodies and defining control systems using linear or general state equations. You can also enhance its realism by changing rigid bodies to flexible bodies or joints to flexible connectors.
To help you compare alternative designs, you can build in parameters that change automatically as you change your model. The parameters can be defined using:
Design points - Design points allow you to build automatic parameterization between objects, as well as position and orient objects. They help you explore the effects of the geometry and mechanical layout of your model. When you change the position of a design point, the position of all objects defined relative to it automatically change.
Design variables - Design variables allow you to vary any aspect of a modeling object. For example, you can define a variable for the width of a link or for the stiffness of a spring. You can then run a design study that changes a single variable over a range of values to investigate the sensitivity of the design to changes in this variable.
Optimize Your Model
ADAMS/View provides tools that help you find the optimal design for your mechanical system:
Design of experiments - Helps you to understand which design variables have the greatest impact on a design objective.
Optimization - Helps you find an optimal design. You define the design objective and specify the parameters of the model that can change.
These tools automatically run several simulations, varying one or more modeling variables with each new simulation.