TY  - EJOU
AU  - Dumitriu, Dan  
AU  - Munteanu, Ligia  
AU  - Brişan, Cornel  
AU  - Chiroiu, Veturia  
AU  - Vasiu, Rǎzvan-Vlad 
AU  - Melinte, Octavian  
AU  - Vlǎdǎreanu, Victor 

TI  - On the Continuum Modeling of the Tire/Road Dynamic Contact
T2  - Computer Modeling in Engineering \& Sciences

PY  - 2013
VL  - 94
IS  - 2
SN  - 1526-1506

AB  - The continuum modeling of tire/road vibro-contact dynamics is developed in this paper by assuming continuum relationship between the contact force and the deformation. An important aspect of this model is that the damping depends on the indentation. In the continuum approach, no difference is made between impact and contact, and the friction law can be other than the Coulomb’s law. Since the road is rocky, a bristle model was chosen to take into account the effect of the road irregularities. The identification of the contact domain is performed by checking the minimum distance between bodies.
KW  - Dynamic contact
KW  -  Friction
KW  -  Rocky road
KW  -  Tire/road contact

DO  - 10.3970/cmes.2013.094.159