Flexibility is a great strength of MegaRide methodologies, being able to adapt and fit in any step of tire characterization processes, through the use of RIDElab tool and RIDEsuite simulation platform.
RIDElab is a tool which allows to characterize tire multiphysics, analyzing dependencies on different phenomena (kinematics, dynamics, thermodynamics, wear, …) and identifying parameters for any kind of tire model.
RIDElab is compliant with any kind of data characterizing tire-road interaction. In particular, it accepts data acquired during:
- indoor tests, with flat track systems
- outdoor tests, with trailers or wheel force transducer systems
Vehicle dynamics simulation results can be also used, such as output of:
- complete vehicle dynamics modeling software (VI-CarRealTime, MSCAdams, …)
- vehicle models able to process acquired data during tests and to get tire-road interaction information (TRICK tool, …)
RIDEsuite simulation platform can be easily implemented in lots of third-party simulation software (VI-CarRealTime, Wintax, …), guaranteeing the correct reproduction of the vehicle behavior in hard-real time environments, without any need to rescale or rewrite the model as many other models do, with reference to computational burden.
Moreover, even Finite Elements Method (FEM) analyses and simulations results are compliant with RIDElab and RIDEsuite, allowing precise and punctual analysis on tire behavior and its dependency on different phenomena, which can be of interest for tire manufacturers and users.