MegaRide launches RIDEsuite v24 for the automotive market: the complete simulation platform that cuts time and costs in the development and testing phases of both tires and vehicles – for applications on the road and in motorsport. RIDEsuite is a modular and multiphysical platform consisting of four applications, which are able to simulate in detail and with high reliability the physical phenomena that affect a vehicle when interacting with the external environment. This is done by constantly monitoring tire temperature, wear, footprint, grip and road surface conditions, considering these factors both in isolation and all together.
Major improvements
whole wheel thermodynamic module
The thermal model updates now include the possibility of a full wheel modeling, accounting for the complex interaction between the tire and the rim, strongly affected, from a thermodynamic point of view, by possible heat flows coming from brakes and additional heating/cooling sources.
multiphysical handling, ride and comfort module
The multi-contact module can be coupled with adheRIDE or with any other third-parties tire interaction model to extend the range of operability to a higher frequency domain (up to 100Hz). A specific SWIFT-evo module, sensitive to the tire thermal and wear state, foresees the possibility of interfacing with any road engine technology to determine a correct normal unit vector and forces’ propagation direction from the contact patch to the wheel hub in both handling and ride & comfort scenarios.
increased compliancy with third party’s vehicle and tire models’ platforms
- Native integration in VI-Grade CarRealTime simulation environment
- Plug&play compliancy with Wintax platform
- Parametric API allowing integration with FEA/FEM application
Full updates:
adheRIDE v5.0 -> 6.0
- improved tire dynamics computation to extend the range of validity of the multi-contact modeling to a higher frequency domain for both handling and ride & comfort applications
- improved numerical stability and reduced computational cost
thermoRIDE v6.0 -> v7.0
- improved management of heat transfers’ local distribution involving the tread external surface during tire rotation
- updates of SEL heat transfer management to optimize the transient thermal dynamics on sidewalls and shoulders
threedeeRIDE v5.0 -> v6.0
- updated internal computation strategy allowing the extension of the operability range over a higher dynamics frequency domain
- improved numerical stability and reduced computational cost
weaRIDE v4.0 -> 5.0
- enabled additional computational methods allowing local contact patch inputs
- revised damage-tread thickness transfer function preventing the model output singularities as an effect of telemetry data channels’ anomalies