RMOD-K tire is a series of mathematical tire and road models designed for predicting vehicle tire response and tire contribution to the overall vehicle response for a wide variety of operating conditions. The topics in this section serve as a companion document to the RMOD-K tire manuals. The RMOD-K model manuals, along with their compiled html help, are available through their website at www.rmod-k.com (after registering on the site).
The following Tire models are supported:
| • | Rigid Belt Model (RFNRB) |
| • | Flexible Belt Model (DMRB) |
Note See the various manuals and online help available at www.rmod-k.com for descriptions of the tire models.
Available .pdf manuals include:
| • | Rigid belt Model (RFNRB)-Detailed manual |
| • | Flexible Belt Model- Detailed manual |
Available online help:
The online help available via the RMOD-K website (www.rmod-k.com) is highly recommended, and contains the following:
| • | Installation instructions for the software |
| • | Online help for the two tire models (Rigid Belt and Flexible Belt) |
| • | Documentation for the road surface model |
| • | Documentation describing the tire parameter fitting tool |
| • | Papers describing the tire fitting process |
Available RMOD-K Utilities:
A variety of utility programs are available to use with RMOD-K. These utilities include: routines that build and correlate the tire model to measured data, a utility that will generate both a parameterized and a measured surface road model, and a utility to view the tire simulation after the model has been run.
Creating tire models:
The tire models are created by measuring a tire and going through a tire parameter identification process to create the model. The model building process requires the following information about the tire:
| • | General Tire Information (size, inflation pressure) |
| • | Tire Force and Moment Measurements |
| • | Tire Cleat Force Measurements |
| • | Modal Information about the Tire |
| • | Miscellaneous Additional Data |
Road Surface Models:
The RMOD-K package also allows you to incorporate two road surface models:
| • | Parametric Object Model - The parametric object model road describes the initial road surface and then allows you to describe a series of parametric objects on the road. Parametric objects include a spherical calotte, a cuboid with an optional chamfer, a triangle, and a cylinder. |
| • | Scanned Road Surface - A point cloud , a wavefront file, and a variety of other files can be used to generate road surface models from measured data. Road surfaces can be measured using a road profilometer. |
See Also:
T-Systems RMOD-K Tire Documentation
Altair RMOD-K Tire Documentation
