Description

Tire contact information.

A ChForceElementTire performs its own collision detection to evaluate the normal tire load. This structure stores information on the current tire-terrain contact state.

#include <ChForceElementTire.h>

Collaboration diagram for chrono::vehicle::ChForceElementTire::ContactData:

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Public Attributes
bool	in_contact
	true if tire in contact with terrain

ChCoordsys	frame
	contact frame (x: long, y: lat, z: normal)

ChVector3d	vel
	relative velocity expressed in contact frame

double	normal_force
	magnitude of normal contact force

double	depth
	penetration depth

The documentation for this struct was generated from the following file:

/builds/uwsbel/chrono/src/chrono_vehicle/wheeled_vehicle/tire/ChForceElementTire.h

Description

Public Attributes