Fully Equipped Dynamic Model of a Bus

Abstract EN

Nowadays, the time to market a new vehicle is crucial for every company as it is easier to meet the customers’ needs and expectations.

However, designing a new vehicle is a long process which needs to take into account different performances.

The most difficult is to predict a dynamic behavior of a vehicle especially when such a big vehicles as urban buses are considered.

Therefore, there is a necessity to use a virtual model to investigate different performances.

However, there is a lack of urban bus models that can fully reflect a dynamic behavior of the bus.

This paper presents a fully equipped urban bus model which can be used to study a dynamic behavior of such vehicles.

The model is based on innovative technique called cosimulation, which connects different modeling techniques (3D and 1D).

Such a technique allows performing different analyses that require small deformations and large translations and rotations in shorter time and automatic way.

The work has been carried out in a project EUREKA CHASING.