Adams/Car provides built-in sub-system and system templates together with pre-defined virtual tests & maneuvers to facilitate the modeling & simulation (M&S) of suspension kinematics & dynamics as well as full-vehicle dynamics. If you are involved with vehicle engineering work at your school, especially for student competitions such as Formula SAE, Baja, Solar Car, and Hybrid or Autonomous Vehicles, then this product is likely to be of interest to you.
Through the contribution of MSC engineers and generosity of some participants in our Adams University online user community, special Adams/Car databases have been created, updated periodically, and shared for use with Formula SAE (FSAE) and Baja SAE competitions. To obtain these databases and instructions for how to use them, visit our SimCompanion articles for:
The video tutorials below are designed to help jump-start your efforts to use Adams/Car for your student competition or other vehicle engineering project. That said, we highly recommend that you start by learning to use Adams/View and Adams/Solver so you obtain a firm grasp of multi-body dynamics fundamentals before progressing to the advanced, "gray box" M&S environment of Adams/Car. That way, if you encounter any difficulties or error messages in Adams/Car, you will have a better ability to understand what may be causing them (since Adams/Car is built on top of the foundation provided by Adams/View+Adams/Solver).
ISO Lane Change at 70 mph
To complete this example problem, the geometries and needed files are provided and are zipped for download in the following link below.
Download relevant files for example [12.4 MB]