Dynamics of Tire Crossing on a Gapped Road Surface
Publication: Journal of Engineering Mechanics
Volume 144, Issue 4
Abstract
The safety of cars and trucks crossing gapped road surfaces can be affected by their operational speed, mass, and the tire and road surface characteristics. As part of a research on the safety of road vehicles crossing discontinuous road surfaces, the dynamic behavior of a single tire passing a gap has been examined as reported in this paper. First, the kinematics of a tire crossing the gap in the road surface is analytically formulated. The formulation has shown that the tire exhibits three distinct (single-point, two-point, and flying) modes of travel depending on its operational speed. The dynamics of the tire are larger in single-point mode that exhibits two critical velocities, which have been validated using a nonlinear arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian method in the finite-element framework. The validated analytical model has shown that the critical velocity is mainly affected by the mass of the overburden.
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Acknowledgments
The first author acknowledges the fee waiver provided by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and the doctoral scholarship provided by the School of Civil Engineering & Built Environment of QUT. This work is supported by the Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant (DP150100814).
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Journal of Engineering Mechanics
Volume 144 • Issue 4 • April 2018
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Received: May 19, 2017
Accepted: Oct 19, 2017
Published online: Feb 8, 2018
Published in print: Apr 1, 2018
Discussion open until: Jul 8, 2018
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