Data Analysis for Dynamics of Cooperative Bridge-Vehicle System Considering Pavement Roughness and Separation

Abstract

A radial nonlinear multi-spring-damper tire (RNMST) model is proposed in this paper for dynamics behavior analysis of the cooperative bridge-vehicle (CBV) system by considering different road surface roughness and separation. First, both the finite element (FE) and force analysis of the RNMST model were analyzed and studied under different velocity and different class of road surfaces. The three types of tire models, nonlinear single-spring tire (NSST) model, nonlinear multi-spring tire model and RNMST model, were introduced as the vehicle tire devices for a quarter vehicle models into nonlinear cooperative bridge-vehicle system. The cooperative dynamics problem, alongside separation and the responses of road surface in terms of its uneven nature, is a typical dynamics problem with the nonlinearity of material which can be solved using the Newmark- <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\beta $ </tex-math></inline-formula> method. The comparison of the results demonstrated that the analysis of the dynamics of the cooperative bridge-vehicle system under the RNMST model and NMST model are generally similar. However, the radial nonlinear multi-spring-damper tire model is more accurate and closer to the stress state of the real tire model. Also, to further illustrate the comprehensive performance of the RNMST, the responses under different pavement excitations were analyzed by using the amplitude-frequency spectrum method. Finally, to research the influence dynamics of tire force on the CBV system, the horizontal component of tire force was analyzed. This is conducive to numerical research of the dynamic responses of both the bridge and the vehicle.