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Trains and heavy trucks crossing bridges result in loads that may cause wear and damage. The damages are substantially reduced by an optimal design of bridges and vehicle suspensions. To improve the technical construction the dynamical interaction between vehicles and their guideways is analysed by computer simulations. The coupled problem vehicle—guideway is studied coupling industrial simulation packages and numerical methods from multibody dynamics (vehicle) and structural mechanics (elastic structure). In the present paper numerical aspects of this modular approach are discussed and an adapted modular time integration scheme is introduced. The methods have been used successfully in practical applications.
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Arnold, M. (2004). Numerical Methods in the Simulation of Vehicle-Guideway Interaction. In: Buikis, A., Čiegis, R., Fitt, A.D. (eds) Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2002. The European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-09510-2_11
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