To reduce vehicle development cycles it is necessary to perform numerical durability analysis in an early development phase. This paper presents an alternative method 'VTL : Virtual Testing Lab' to predict the required loads for fatigue analysis. In V...
To reduce vehicle development cycles it is necessary to perform numerical durability analysis in an early development phase. This paper presents an alternative method 'VTL : Virtual Testing Lab' to predict the required loads for fatigue analysis. In VTL using Multi-Body Simulation (MBS), the loads prediction process can be performed for an constrained or unconstrained vehicle under several different conditions. Various VTL methods and related technologies showing different results are introduced and evaluated in this paper.