Force Moment Method within Full-Vehicle Analysis/Static and Quasi-Static Maneuvers

[T_M_S]

Good day everyone,
In A/Car there's an option to to do famous (due to Milliken's book) force moment method analysis. While it seem to work as expected, I can't figure out how to get that yaw moment diagram (yaw moment on y-axis and lateral acc on x-axis). Does anyone know how to do it?
Also, I would like to learn how the test rig and simulation itself is implemented? Does anybody know where I can find testrig (that is used in this maneuver and other quasi static simulations) template within a/car directories? I would like to recreate it in Matlab/Simscape but I just can't figure out some aspects - like how do I constrain the wheels/tires to the "ground" so that my model doesn't slide away (but it is still free to track/wheelbase variations associated with roll/heave movement) when I apply lateral/longitudinal accelerations to chassis CG.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you.
Ted

 

[GregLocock]

I think it is something you have to write a script for, the ADAMS postprocessor is not very good at that sort of thing. All of my plotting was in Matlab or Hypergraph, and this looks like a Matlab job.

 

[T_M_S]

Many thanks Greg.
May I ask if there's more efficient way to export a/car results to Matlab other than spreadsheet and manually picking results data?

Also - is there a way to find the script (and testrig) used in a/car to execute this simulation? Scrolling through a/car folder didn't help much.

Thank you.
Ted

 

[GregLocock]

You may be able to find the script req2cdf.m or its fortran equivalent. They MAY be proprietary. The google search for msc adams req file format has many hits and rabbitholes.

 

[T_M_S]

Thank you. I will look into exploring those rabbitholes.