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Sloshing cargo in silo vehicles

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The driving stability of silo vehicles is significantly affected by the type of cargo that is transported and the design of the tank. Cargo motion can have both beneficial and negative aspects in terms of driving stability and braking performance. Neglecting the influence of the dynamically moving cargo in driving simulations of silo vehicles leads to significant errors in the simulation results. We propose a new method for the dynamic simulation of silo vehicles carrying granulates. The method couples Lagrangian particle methods, such as the discrete element method, and multibody systems methods using co-simulations. We demonstrate the capability of the new approach by providing simulation results of two benchmark maneuvers.

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  1. Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 9, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany

    Florian Fleissner, Werner Schiehlen & Peter Eberhard

  2. Department of Mechanics, Politecnico Milano, Via La Masa 34, Milano, 20148, Italy

    Vincenzo D’Alessandro

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Florian Fleissner received his Dipl.-Ing. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Erlangen, Germany, in 2003. He is currently working as research and teaching assistant, completing his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics at the University of Stuttgart, Germany.

Vincenzo D’Alessandro graduated in 2008 in Mechanical Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He is currently working as a Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering at the department of mechanical engineering at the Politecnico di Milano.

Werner Schiehlen was educated as a mechanical engineer and received a Ph.D. on satellite dynamics in 1966. After working for 10 years with the Technical University Munich and spending one year with NASA in the US he was appointed full professor of mechanics with the University of Stuttgart until his retirement in 2002. He published more than 320 scientific papers in applied and computational dynamics including 7 books mostly translated in foreign languages, too. Werner Schiehlen served as President of IUTAM. Since 1997 he is Editor-in-Chief of the international journal MULTIBODY SYSTEM DYNAMICS.

Peter Eberhard received his Dipl.-Ing. in Mechanical Engineering, his Dr.-Ing. and his Habilitation in Mechanics from the University of Stuttgart in Germany. In 2000 he was appointed as Professor of Mechanics and System Dynamics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg before he became 2002 Full Professor and Director of the Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics at the University of Stuttgart. In 2000 he received the Richard-von-Mises award and in 2007 an Honorary Professorship at the Nanjing University of Science and Technology, P.R. China. His research interests include multibody dynamics, contact mechanics, mechatronics, optimization and biomechanics.

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Fleissner, F., D’Alessandro, V., Schiehlen, W. et al. Sloshing cargo in silo vehicles. J Mech Sci Technol 23, 968–973 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12206-009-0323-6

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